right-thinking
Example Sentences
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“My thoughtful, introspective and well-intentioned father went through living hell,” his son, lawyer Paul Maginn, says, adding that “any right-thinking person” could see the allegation had been made up by Crossley.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024
Monsters without intelligence are boring — you can keep your zombies — and, as all right-thinking people believe, Godzilla, despite the immense collateral damage it causes, is one of the good guys.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023
That the thoughtfulness of the gift, not its cost, is all that matters to a right-thinking bride whose wedding is worth attending.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022
Real was beaten within 10 minutes: two goals down, ruthlessly exposed, looking suddenly like the expensive collection of gifted but ill-matched individuals that all right-thinking people dismissed them as about four Champions League titles ago.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022
I told Granny that I planned to make some money by selling papers and she agreed, thinking that at last I was becoming a serious, right-thinking boy.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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