Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rightward
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a rightward shift in American politics
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After college, they moved on to literary and academic careers and began a rightward march through the 1940s and 1950s.
▪ Again, we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve.
▪ At the outset of his presidency, Mitterand was a leader seemingly out of step with the rightward drift of the West.
▪ On that evidence alone Mr Gummer has always been a rightward lurcher.
▪ There, the voters' rightward drift has pushed Republicans into the White House for 20 years out of the past 24.
▪ Yes, but because the speed of light is finite, there will be a delay between the leftward and rightward pushes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rightward
Rightward \Right"ward\, adv. Toward the right.
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
--Southey.
Wiktionary
rightward
a. To or from the right. adv. To or from the right.
Usage examples of "rightward".
Giving the Porsche’s wheel a rightward turn, he oversteered a bit and had to straighten before turning onto Cathcart Boulevard.
Again there is a shift to the right with a rightward tilt and to the left with a leftward tilt.
At this distance, almost a mile, the knights formed a dense mass, seeming to slide slightly rightward as they went like some dark creature with a thousand legs and spikes along its back.