right-on
See also: right on
English
Alternative forms
- right on
Adjective
right-on (comparative more right-on, superlative most right-on)
- (chiefly Britain, often derogatory) Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.
- 2002, Liz Stanley & Sue Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, →ISBN, page 51:
- The most telling thing about them is that both portray what they see as right-wing as 'the other', and so as less revolutionary and less right-on.
- 2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble, →ISBN:
- Sid was greying, and small and very right-on when it came to the left. To Mr Grumble, Sid looked like another BTC, graduate tree-hugger, the type that hitchhiked around Tajikistan, or worked in the local library, or charity shop; the sort who would bother him in the street to complete some marketing survey.
- 2014 October 23, Pitel, Laura, “Charity refuses money from Ukip calypso song”, in The Times, number 71335, page 2:
- Ukip said that it was saddened that "synthetic outrage" from the "right-on media" had forced Read to withdraw the single and announced that the full profits would be donated to the Red Cross Ebola Outreach programme.
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Synonyms
- politically correct, PC
Antonyms
- politically incorrect