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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I like the current trend but because not a lot has necessarily changed about the front office, I’m not ready to say ‘OK, we’re fully on the right track.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Trust, he said, is “central,” and right now it operates through institutions that aren’t delivering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Until now its members have sat on the right fringe of the state parliament, but ahead of Tuesday's inaugural session it successfully argued that it should now sit in the centre.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Ideally, you want everything to be working. But at least right now the right things are working.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
He throws twigs, watching whether they swirl, veer left or right.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
She added that she considered four grounds of appeal, including climate change considerations and human rights.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The group tried to push the state legislature to adopt bills aimed at stopping steep rent increases and protecting tenants’ rights to organize.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
That fee doesn’t cover production costs for the show, which are shouldered by the licensee of the rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Parents are children’s natural providers and protectors,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“There can be no lighter topics when human rights are being infringed upon.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
There’s never been a comics character like John Constantine, DC Comics’ trenchcoat-sporting magician and wisecracking righter of wrongs.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2014
For days she thought about this, and the more she thought, the righter it seemed.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
"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
Now, with respect to Wordsworth’s “Gipsy,” I think he is right, and yet I think Hazlitt is right, and yet I think Wordsworth is rightest.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
It’s the properest, and rightest, and most convenient, and it’s the name he must have,” he added firmly.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
"I want to thank all of the young campaigners who have been bravely raising their voices about this, and whose dedication will lead to seeing this wrong righted," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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 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
“We are delighted that the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has righted a wrong and given Jordan the chance she deserves to reclaim her bronze medal,” Suh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Quickly she righted herself, but in that moment she saw him glance toward her, then look away in disinterest.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
“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
Then, toward the end of the decade, Superman came on the scene as a comic-book hero devoted to righting wrongs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
The former president didn’t pretend that righting the ship would be easy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
After five consecutive losses, several weeks of mounting frustration, and the most painful collapse imaginable the night before, the Dodgers took a crucial first step toward righting their sinking ship on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
“We know it’s not your fault, Alter,” Mrs. Brenner said, righting the fallen chairs.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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