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
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
Malvo’s lawyers say he is a mature, right-thinking adult now.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022
They believe an artist's democratic duty is to please the virtuous, right-thinking public, for which he or she will be duly and amply rewarded.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021
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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