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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Economic policy on the right, he said, is now “much more Alexander Hamilton,” a change he called “obviously a good thing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Shane Bothwell, 39, is director of operations for Old Town Junction, a restaurant and bar right across the street from the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Forces Pension Society is advising anyone who receives an overpayment letter to verify its authenticity, request more information from Equiniti and using the right to complain through the Internal Disputes Procedure.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
A rich collection of living and fossilized corals is present in the Galapagos Islands, the volcanic archipelago off the west coast of Ecuador, right at the heart of the eastern Pacific El Nino zone.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
He shoves my foot upward; swinging my right leg, I grip the saddle’s horn.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
All of social media should be designed to be safe for children, the UN human rights chief has said after Meta settled a massive court case in the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mundubile took refuge the day after the August 13 election at an international human rights organisation after police raided his home in an operation against the opposition.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Civil rights organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union accused the department of attempting to intimidate the public by arming agents with another use-of-force option.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The bank’s AED1.75 billion rights issue announced Tuesday should provide additional funding for growth, while financing is forecast to expand about 20% this year before remaining in double digits through 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He had stood up for the rights of enslaved people as an attorney.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
Had Documenta 14 been lighter, brighter and righter, not to mention a box-office hit, would its budgetary overdraw have been grounds for disgrace?
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
“You couldn’t be righter, dear,” she said, and she patted his royal robes.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
"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
Double Comparatives and Superlatives should be avoided; such as, worser, lesser, more deeper, more wickeder, &c.: chiefest, supremest, perfectest, rightest; or more perfect, most perfect, most supreme, &c.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
Love is a virtue which is the rightest affection of man's soul.
From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Geraldine Emma Hodgson
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
That might have caused some rinks to unravel but this Scottish quartet are the world's best, and soon righted themselves.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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
The former president didn’t pretend that righting the ship would be easy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
From this point of view, Syria’s revolution might be seen as the righting of a long historic anomaly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
He kept walking, slipping on rocks here and there, righting himself, slipping again, walking, walking, walking.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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