right-on
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.91 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.
British usage; Derogatory
Example Sentences
- ""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!""
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Usage
- British usage
- Derogatory