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right-winger

right-winger

30 5.4
A person who supports conservative or traditional political ideas
  • noun
  • /ˈraɪtˌwɪŋɡər/
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  • Many right-wingers in the party support traditional family values in their platform.
  • extreme right-wingers
  • radical right-winger
  • hard right-wingers

And you know how all of these right wingers think about the LGBTQ plus people.

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Examples

  • They look at their charge as saying those right wingers are a threat to democracy.

  • As a right-winger, she firmly believes in reducing government intervention in the economy.

  • That way they can get more and more right-wingers running things in Washington.

  • Either way, you get a right winger in the White House.

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  • As a mostly right winger myself, it tends to be my friends that look at these issues in this way.

  • And most right wingers in the UK and Australia are a blend of those two.

  • Right-wingers think it's all about the money because right-wingers have no actual principles.

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  • Geraldo is a right winger, and O'Reilly is as far to the right as Hannity.

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  • If you are a right-winger, you don't want to have anything to do with the Gnostic heresies of Nazism and Fascism.

  • The right-winger advocated for stricter immigration policies during the debate.

Synonyms

conservative
vsright-winger
306 4.4

A person who does not want big changes and likes traditional values

is political alignment focusing on party support rather than general resistance
rightist
vsright-winger
4 7.2

A person who supports conservative political ideas

is used more generally for party membership rather than personal views

Antonyms

8 4.2

A person who supports ideas for more equality and public services

How Right-wing

far-right
  • Literature
20 6.8
right-winger
30 5.4
centrist
24 4.2
left-winger
8 4.2

Surface Forms

right-winger singular
right-wingers plural

Morphology

right-winger = right-wing (semi-transparent) = right + wing + er

The word is formed regularly from 'right-wing' plus agentive '-er', but the political sense of 'right-wing' is a conventional metaphor rather than a fully literal combination.

Etymology

Right-winger comes from the simple parts right (the 'right side') and wing (a 'side' or group). A helpful image is the French Revolution, when people who sat on the 'right' tended to support the old order, so a right-winger is someone on the conservative 'right' side of politics.