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See definition of rightist on Dictionary.com
  • as inold guard
  • as inright-wing
  • as inright-winger

synonyms for rightist

  • conservative
  • old-fashioned
  • old-line
  • old-school
  • traditional
  • traditionalist
  • traditionalistic
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • right of center
  • conventional
  • die-hard
  • hard hat
  • traditionalist
  • ultraconservative/ultra-conservative
  • unprogressive
  • reactionary
  • traditionalist
  • classicist
  • die-hard
  • preserver
  • stick-in-the-mud
  • Tory
  • ultraconservative
  • bitter-ender
  • conserver
  • conventionalist
  • hard hat
  • old guard
  • old liner
  • standpat
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How to use rightist in a sentence

McCarthy has carefully avoided going too far in alienating hard rightists in his caucus.
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The delegates of the rightist coalition remained in their seats, their arms folded across their chests.
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I have been to a number of rightist meetings and seminars in Texas.
WARREN COMMISSION (2 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. II (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
One of them is, I think, leaning towards excessive rightist tendencies.
WARREN COMMISSION (9 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. IX (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
You don't have to be an extreme rightist to believe in the sovereignty of the individual.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
At least most people who listen to me talk call me a rightist.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I don't think you can call a man an extreme leftist, rightist, or middle-of-the-roader and have him classified that simply.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I think he immediately kissed it off as a hopeless rightist organization, "You can't reason with those people," that approach.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I have in mind—was this in your opinion a rightist plot, a leftist plot, an anarchist plot?
WARREN COMMISSION (1 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. I (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
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WORDS RELATED TO RIGHTIST

  • Tory
  • bitter-ender
  • classicist
  • conserver
  • conventionalist
  • die-hard
  • hard hat
  • middle-of-the-roader
  • old guard
  • old liner
  • preserver
  • reactionary
  • right
  • right-winger
  • rightist
  • standpat
  • stick-in-the-mud
  • traditionalist
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.