right
- fair, just adj.
- accurate, precise adj.
- appropriate, fitting adj.
- sane, healthy adj.
- conservative politically adj.
- opposite of left adj.
- accurately, precisely adv.
- appropriately, suitably adv.
- fairly, justly adv.
- beneficially adv.
- directly, without delay adv.
- privilege n.
- justice, morality n.
- fix, correct v.
Example Sentences
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Vorcaro does not appear to mind whether his alleged associates are on the left or right of politics, however.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
“We are running a little leaner right now, with less oil in the tanks,” Mahil said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The second, three minutes later, was stamped right through with class, bringing a beaming smile to the face of Iraola.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
When arguing with the prime minister, Mr. Gallant waved his right hand with thumb and index finger extended for emphasis, his eyes lit up with a rare fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
First of all, Grandma would surely snatch them right from their sockets; she’s old-school and does not play.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Her “no Mr. Nice Guy” approach to enforcing the terms of a lease is also within her rights, her defenders say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
A warship, the USS Lexington, destroyed a fort established there in December 1831 amid a dispute over local fishing and sealing rights.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The feminist icon, who died Wednesday at 92, never stopped advocating for equal rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The idea has been severely criticised by rights groups.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
He opens the door, and JP strolls in wearing a freshly ironed bow tie and T-shirt with civil rights leaders’ names on it.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
The time has never been righter, it seems to me.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Cat burglar, con artist, master of disguise, Lupin is also a brilliant detective and righter of wrongs.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2021
“As a solver of mysteries and a righter of historical wrongs, I live for this stuff,” Zax said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Nevertheless, we still tend to fixate on the things they got right, often with fingers crossed, dreaming that their thoughts might help us make the world righter still.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
"Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
"I don't fancy her chances much either way," said everyone else, and they were probably the rightest of all.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Solomon did, and that's a pretty good example; though I don't suppose that even Solomon always knew for certain when he was doing the rightest thing there was.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
Mah name's Doright 'case Ah always does de rightest Ah knows how.
From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
McNamara’s quantitative cost-benefit-analysis approach to business had righted Ford’s postwar problems but proved disastrous when he tried to apply it to the Vietnam War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
He got his team very badly wrong to begin with, but he righted the wrongs thereafter.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
He righted the ship with a birdie at the par-five 13th, where he missed the green but chipped to three feet from dense rough well below the green.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“It’s upside down. A lot of people say that it was actually upside down before, and we just righted it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Undeterred, he righted himself and sat gazing up at the strange wolf.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
“The quarter prior revealed some success in righting the ship in the U.S., but significantly worse performance in China, which is becoming a much smaller part of the business,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
That 7-year-old feels like he’s finally righting this wrong from so many years ago.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
The former president didn’t pretend that righting the ship would be easy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
From this point of view, Syria’s revolution might be seen as the righting of a long historic anomaly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Hey, there, Sparrow,” he says awkwardly, righting his tie.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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