right-wing

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

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

   Antonyms: left-wing, leftish, liberal

   Hyponyms: aristocratic, conservative, monarchist, reactionary, theocratic

   • 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.

   • 2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2021:

     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.

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