Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having ideas and views based on what is right or intended to be right.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a right mind; well or properly disposed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a right or honest mind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Sane , clear thinking. - adjective
Decent ,morally upright ; in moralagreement with a position.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disposed toward or having views based on what is right
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Examples
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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 Problem with Interventional Drug Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease Caldwell B. Esselstyn 2010
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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.
Chapter 20 2010
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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?
Grieving couple's plea: 'Don't let visa rules split us up' 2011
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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.
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD: The Problem with Interventional Drug Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease Caldwell B. Esselstyn 2010
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Fred was the first right-minded, non-sleazy adult to ask me to call him by his first name.
This Redneck’s Got Honest Voice Murray Dunlap 2011
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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."
Anti-Revolutionary British Loyalists Maya Jasanoff 2011
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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.
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Or rather, I suppose this is true of most but not all – and not necessarily the more right-minded – people.
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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?
David Wild: "American Idiot": What Should Be Stephen Colbert's Campaign Song? David Wild 2012
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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.
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