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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Let’s get the rose-colored story line out of the way, right away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The embassy said Iran "reserves the right to take appropriate legal measures, as necessary, to safeguard the rights and interests of the country and its people in response to misleading and damaging media narratives".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Without the right protections, a dispute could tie up millions of dollars.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
“But most importantly in the medium term the firm is taking the right structural measures in Europe to improve the profitability.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
I decide right then to rip off the Band-Aid.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Nearby is a popular swimming spot at Conham River Park where there has been years of campaigning to protect the Avon from pollution, most recently with a charter of rights for the river.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Neither owners nor players would have lost any significant revenue by then — ticket sales and broadcasting rights for owners, salaries for players — so a new agreement by then is uncertain at best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Descendants of Michael P. Hannin, who acquired the quarry in 1931, applied for vested rights in 2018, saying they had long intended to mine and process the lime deposits there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
"These are our rights that we want to be respected."
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Certainly, he never made anywhere near a profit from the Fischer–Spassky match, despite the revenue from admissions fees, the sale of souvenirs, posters, television rights, etc.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
She hug me around my neck, say, “You’re righter than Miss Taylor.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"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
Yes," I said, "or, at least, if not that they are right, that they are the rightest we can attain to for the time being, and until we see something righter.
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
Oh! at least it is a comfort that Alick was really the kindest and rightest!
From Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge
That odd gap between single-stock and benchmark volatility finally righted itself during a recent broad-based selloff, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
A thrift-store find some years later righted things: an Art Deco wonder with a ceramic face housed in wood marquetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
By the time I found Georgie, he’d righted the bicycle.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Nike says it is focused on righting the ship, including by introducing new Chinese-designed products and pushing the brand in a more premium direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“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
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
I was working toward nothing less than the righting of wrongs, turning evil to good, and stopping the craziness that was steadily and surely taking over my valley.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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