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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
right-minded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First, where the conduct would not be thought indecent by any right-minded observer, indecent assault could not be committed.
▪ Second, where right-minded observers would agree that the conduct was indecent, that would be an indecent assault.
▪ So I kicked out at him, as any right-minded girl would do.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Right-minded

Right-minded \Right"-mind`ed\, a. Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
right-minded

1580s, from right (adj.) + minded.

Wiktionary
right-minded

a. 1 sane, clear thinking. 2 decent, morally upright; in moral agreement with a position.

WordNet
right-minded

adj. disposed toward or having views based on what is right; "respect for law which every right-minded citizen ought to have"- Bertrand Russell

Usage examples of "right-minded".

Would you believe it, our teachers were all intellectual, right-minded people, brought up on Turgenev and Shtchedrin, yet this little chap, who always went about with goloshes and an umbrella, had the whole high-school under his thumb for fifteen long years!

Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity.

All right-minded children feared the Creator, and Tobias Brogan was nothing if not right-minded, Still, the scaled creatures hardly seemed the appropriate choice to carry divine guidance.

The actual mating, to be sure, would be voluntary and legalized by marriage (at least in the pilot experiment): the whole operation would amount to no more than a sophisticated and programmatic Courtship Counseling, already in its simpler form a popular WESCAC service, and should tend towards improvements in the student body of a sort no right-minded person could object to: better physical and mental health, higher IQ's, intellectual earnestness, Enochian humility, and the like.

By now, eleven Turns since the Abomina­tion had terminated, some right-minded, thinking folk would realize that the Red Star had not changed course simply because three old engines had blown up in a crack on its surface!