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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
right-thinking
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
▪ Sexist language distorts the truth: realising this, right-thinking people will proceed to self-criticism and reform.
▪ So what do decent, right-thinking people do about unbooks?
▪ How all-pervasive is the orthodoxy of right-thinking people.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Any right-thinking individual has got to be really concerned about the situation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An assertion is not defamatory simply because it is untrue - it must lower the victim in the eyes of right-thinking citizens.
▪ How all-pervasive is the orthodoxy of right-thinking people.
▪ Sexist language distorts the truth: realising this, right-thinking people will proceed to self-criticism and reform.
Wiktionary
right-thinking

a. 1 sane, sensible, cogent, clear of thought. 2 In agreement on moral positions.

Usage examples of "right-thinking".

One was Darlaniste or Petainiste, Gaullist or Giraudiste, they were all right-thinking and very noisy and boring about it.

It is an act of cynical brigandry, and must be condemned with all the force at the command of right-thinking nations with the security of civilised behaviour at heart.

And, with all humility, Emissary, to express your belief in the legends of Jalbador, and in these so-called Orbs, well, that is not an example right-thinking Bajoran people would want their children to follow.

The Blessed Jesus, lord of freedom and detester of government says that the open mouth of a nagging slut is an offense in the eyes of any right-thinking person.

This is why in the '60s the spread of LSD was viewed with such alarm by the Establishment, because it appeared that the machinery of right-thinking, Christian capitalist society was simply being dissolved before the startled eyes of its purveyors by virtue of the fact that so many people were calling into question the assumptions of the culture that they were inheriting.

His publisher, Cambridge University Press, was attacked with cries that the editor should be fired, and that all right-thinking scientists should shun the press.