right-thinking
Use Right-thinking in a sentence
kɪŋ adjective
having acceptably proper or correct convictions, beliefs, etc.
Origin:
1820–30
1820–30
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| —adj | |
| possessing reasonable and generally acceptable opinions | |
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Right-thinking
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
To guarantee the benign use of science, perhaps he would vest power in a court of right-thinking scientists.
It's these other poor benighted souls who have to be brought into line with our right-thinking orthodoxy.
More importantly, it's equally obvious that even right-thinking people don't really agree about well-being, or how to maximize it.
Maybe it's the self-congratulatory air of consensus among people who consider themselves and one another right-thinking.
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