right-thinkingadj.n.

1680 G. Sikes Expos. Ecclesiastes vii. 310 Bidders at Salvation, and the Kingdom of God, as the only reputed Orthodox, or right-thinking heirs thereof.

1732 P. Delany Revelation II. p. xx These right-thinking men, are doubtless very good judges of a right and a reasonable conduct.

1796 S. J. Arnold Creole II. vi. 56 A right-thinking man is always more tenacious of his own good opinion, than of the opinion of the world.

1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 156 There is always a way that all right-thinking people fall into.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxv. 252 He thought Blanche..the most pious, gifted, right-thinking, fascinating person he had ever met.

1890 R. Kipling in Pioneer Mail (Allahabad) 19 Mar. 394/1 And verily it is not a good thing to live in the East for any length of time. Your ideas grow to clash with those held by every right-thinking white man.

1934 B. Russell Freedom & Organization 1814–1914 xxviii. 394 The area must not be in Asia or Africa; this was clear to all right-thinking people.

1961 Times 11 July 12/6 No right-thinking suburbanite would be seen on his lawn without wearing Bermudas.

1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies ii. iv. 161 Of course, I was a member of the Socialist Society, but so was every other right-thinking person.

1855 W. G. Heathman Switzerland in 1854–5 xxv. 402 A body of..young men, are corrupting the rising generation at the fountain—a calamity which the right-thinking are desirous of averting.

1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 172 Among the right-thinking the doctrine of the inherent wickedness of concupiscence is still held with an extraordinary intensity.

1996 B. Bond Pursuit of Victory (1998) Concl. 199 If the right-thinking are to achieve their great aim of abolishing war they must first persuade us that victory is futile or, better still actually harmful.