right-wing

Definition

Of a view, group, or ideology: emphasizing conservatism, traditional values, free-market capitalism, and limited government intervention.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified."