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US
/ˈɹaɪtɪst/
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[ UK /ɹˈaɪtɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈaɪtɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a member of a right wing political party
ADJECTIVE
- believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
How To Use rightist In A Sentence
- It depends on how the Rightist gentlemen behave themselves.
- The decade immediately preceding Picasso's turn to ceramics saw the century-old debate about craft and society in France take on emphatic new political colorations, first of a leftist cast, and then of a rightist.
- Regardless of whether one is a welfarist or a rightist I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do. Marc Bekoff: Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?
- To varying degrees, rightist Republicans from Mr. Bennett to Rush Limbaugh have been as much of an embarassment to a once-proud constitutionist conservative party. Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
- It was one of the few years in recent US history that saw a decline in rightist tyranny.
- The Bolshevik Party always had rightist, compromising tendencies and ultra-left tendencies.
- In Peru they are conducting their great reactionary campaigns with the support of the oligarchy and the press, which reflects the thoughts of the imperialists, that is, the rightist press. CASTRO'S BAY OF PIGS ANNIVERSARY SPEECH
- His two finest henchmen were in prison, and he had started a killing feud with some extremely dangerous rightist groups.
- Headlining the main papers today were the Monday arrests of the deputy of the rightist PFL (Liberal Front Party) and president of this sect, Joao Batista, and another six people in the possession of seven suitcases containing about 10 million reales, some 4 million dollars. Brazilians accused of racism and discrimination in SA church
- The most disputed regional elections were cancelled by Hodge but the new elections again led to rightist triumph.