right-wing

• rightwing, right wing

From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.

right-wing (comparative more right-wing, superlative most right-wing)

1. (politics) Of political ideologies: opposing political and social equality, especially conservative, traditional, and/or reactionary politics.
   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

     It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.

• rightish, right
• conservative (particularly US, Canada, and UK)
• Tory (particularly the UK)

• left-wing
• liberal

• aristocratic
• conservative
• monarchist
• reactionary
• theocratic

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