Definition of rightward
: being at, toward, or to the right
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The lower-case g actually comes in two typographic forms: The fish hook, a circle with a left facing curl beneath it, and the loop-tail, two closed, connected circles with a sort of rightward-facing tassel on the top one.
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The shift toward this view grew directly out of the rightward surge of the late twentieth century, a period of intense activism on the part of conservatives and business leaders.
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Within a few years after 1968, the rightward shift of working-class whites was obvious.
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Amid the stagnation, an influx of migrants and refugees has led to rising nativism and a rightward lurch in the country's politics.
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Each plan reflects a profound rightward shift in the federal government's stance on the relationship among access to health care, government entitlements and economic self-reliance.
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The most rightward Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee then—the two or three who continued to maintain Nixon’s innocence—were rendered irrelevant, while their descendants are throwing bombs.
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Mr Trump’s victories represented, among other things, a rightward turn in many formerly competitive states.
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His rightward drift on the issue has been strategic, outflanking the far-right National Front as well as the more traditional right.
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