Right-on

Quick meaning: Right-on is an adjective meaning (now chiefly UK, now often derogatory) Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.

Meaning

(now chiefly UK, now often derogatory) Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

"They [women who cohabitate] do not support the girls they live with and yet the girls do all the things a wife does for her husband, the cooking, the laundry, the housework, and sometimes she even supports him while he finishes school!" (To which one right-on middle-aged woman in the audience responded, "So we did the same thing only we had a piece of paper which made it legal!"

Synonyms for right-on

Depending on context, synonyms include PC, woke.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include left-wingy, leftish, rightish, right-of-centre, left-of-centre, left-of-center.

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