Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having ideas and views based on what is right or intended to be right.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a right mind; well or properly disposed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Sane, clear thinking.
- adj. In moral agreement with a position.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having a right or honest mind.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. disposed toward or having views based on what is right
Examples
“Or rather, I suppose this is true of most but not all – and not necessarily the more right-minded – people.”
“I just can't see a right-minded person pleading guilty to this unless they were wanting to avoid the additional scrutiny of a trial that might have revealed something worse.”
“Here then -- for Mr. Colbert and Jon Stewart who controls his super PAC -- are some right-minded suggestions for campaign theme songs that will help the candidate establish a deeper rapport with the American people - or is that a report?”
The Huffington Post: David Wild: "American Idiot": What Should Be Stephen Colbert's Campaign Song?
“Bernard Bailyn had already published his seminal "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" 1967 when he turned his attention to the "losers," hoping to understand "why any sensible, well-informed, right-minded American with a modicum of imagination and common sense could possibly have opposed the Revolution.”
The Wall Street Journal: Anti-Revolutionary British Loyalists
“The couple's lawyer, Duncan Grant, said: What right-minded person would say they have to be split up now, when they clearly need to be supporting each other?”
The Guardian: Grieving couple's plea: 'Don't let visa rules split us up'
“Fred was the first right-minded, non-sleazy adult to ask me to call him by his first name.”
“The extents that lawyers will go to to in the name of “justice” for their client is frequently sickening to the pit of the stomach of any right-minded human being.”
“To fully grasp how so many smart, right-minded people could get it so wrong, it might help to start with a quick review of medical history.”
The Huffington Post: The Problem with Interventional Drug Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease
“The crusading San Francisco newspaper assured its working-class readers that San Quentin was whiter than snow, and further, that while it was true that the strait-jacket was still a recognized legal method of punishment for the refractory, that, nevertheless, at the present time, under the present humane and spiritually right-minded Warden, the strait-jacket was never, under any circumstance, used.”
“If an organisation wishes to display advertising on it, or any other building in Westminster for that matter, they should apply through the normal channels like any right-minded person with respect for the law.”
The Guardian: Big Ben Ashes stunt may land Australia in legal action
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