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Definition of right-wingnext
as in neoconservative

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noun

as in rightist

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Recent Examples of right-wing
Adjective
Premier Giorgia Meloni’s conservative government said the package is aimed at strengthening integration through language learning and has drawn support from right-wing allies. — Giada Zampano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Samurai imagery gained prominence during World War I, which many right-wing Italians viewed as an opportunity to reinvigorate a militaristic form of nationalism. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026 Outlets in the new media seat have ranged from right-wing influencers to startup media outlets. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 Saturday’s unrest came a year after rioting erupted around a right-wing demonstration. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 Five million dollars were to go to Avigdor Lieberman, who headed the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu Party. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 Rabin was killed [in 1995], that was a last straw —seeing an extremist right-wing lunatic in Israel kill Rabin and kill the dreams of peace. — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026 In Ecuador, right-wing President Daniel Noboa has had increasingly tense relations with Indigenous organizations. — Caterina Morbiato, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026 Ink shows how Thatcher’s right-wing populism originated in the permissive society of the late ’60s. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
Several targets, especially for the right-wing-back role, turned them down. — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025 The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president. — Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025 Macri's circle continues pushing for an open break with Milei to lead right-wing opposition. — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 The changes occurred after the struggling restaurant chain faced days of intense backlash, primarily from right-wing influencers, over its new logo. — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 Antoni is the chief economist at the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, a contributor to the right-wing policy blueprint Project 2025 and a critic of the agency. — Calmatters, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025 YouTube inked a deal to launch Herring Networks’ right-wing One America News (OAN) on YouTube TV in the fourth quarter of 2025. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025 Farage, a British right-wing populist, has been critical of the Online Safety Act, saying in July the act was already altering consumers’ feeds. — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025 Fuentes is among the most popular streamers on Rumble, a right-wing platform similar to YouTube; his videos regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for right-wing
  1. neoconservative
  2. rightist
  3. stodgy
  4. conservative
  5. ossified
  6. right-winger
  7. ultraright
  8. traditionalist
Adjective
  • The President, this faction argued, was too cowed by hawkish interventionists like Mark Levin, a neoconservative commentator.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Those twenty-five years or so were the apex of Washington Consensus conservatism, of neoconservative interventions abroad and neoliberal economic policy at home.
    — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of neoconservative
Noun
  • In fact, he’s decided to go all the way from an angry leftist to a very angry rightist.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That is, rightists who oppose aid to Ukraine tend to be skeptical of Israel and at least open to having anti-Semites in the Republican coalition.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of rightist
Adjective
  • Seabourn is reinventing itself and shedding any stodgy atmosphere in favor of a younger, more active experience.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The cuisine was also noteworthy, a generous choice of cocktails, wines, and cuisine with hints of contemporary English inspiration, while avoiding being British stodgy.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of stodgy
Noun
  • Although tech giants and some unions support data center development, many people oppose it, and conservatives and progressives share that opposition.
    — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Pro-natalist conservatives have cited the decrease in women deciding to have children as a kind of modern self-absorption and evidence of the failures of feminism.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of conservative
Adjective
  • In her film, Sanguinetti presents a subtle thread about the nature of western spaces defined by ossified traditions, the face of which is being altered by the specter of modernity.
    — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • In his view, abolishing the proscenium would help dismantle ossified hierarchies.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
Definition of ossified
Noun
  • Cleaning up the courts So the next justice will likely be a right-winger, too.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
  • Bass’ absence from the city soon caught the eye of right-wingers, with Spencer Pratt, who ran against her in the nonpartisan primary election, and Steve Hilton, who is running for governor, among those critiquing her.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
Definition of right-winger
Adjective
  • Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Because Jesuits often sided with El Salvador’s poor and some kept records of human rights violations, they were hated by the country’s ultraright.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
Definition of ultraright
Noun
  • Dr Pepper Chef Robert Cantu, area executive chef for Four Brothers at Omni La Mansión del Rio and Ostra at Mokara Hotel & Spa in San Antonio, is a traditionalist and loves Dr Pepper.
    — Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2026
  • When brutal rationalism is challenged, especially by traditionalists, its defenders will often justify themselves by pointing to the intelligence of its adherents.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of traditionalist

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