Right-wing

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a view, group, or ideology: emphasizing conservatism, traditional values, free-market capitalism, and limited government intervention.

    "It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order."

Adjective
  1. 1
    believing in or supporting tenets of the political right wordnet

Synonyms

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backwardclockwiseconservativedexterdextraldie hard

Example

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"When I called him right-wing, I mean that his thinking is old-fashioned."

Etymology

From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.

Related phrases

reich-wingright-wing populismright-wing socialism

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