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Definition of Right-winger
1. Noun. A member of a right wing political party.
Generic synonyms: Conservative, Conservativist
Specialized synonyms: Fascist, Monarchist, Royalist, Tory
Derivative terms: Right Wing, Rightism, Rightist
Definition of Right-winger
1. Noun. A person who belongs to the political right. ¹
2. Noun. A member of the right wing of a party or group. ¹
3. Noun. (sports) A winger who plays on the right. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Right-winger
Literary usage of Right-winger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. U.S.-Japan Strategic Reciprocity: A Neo-Internationalist View by Edward A. Olsen (1985)
"... right-wing extremist movement in Japan led by people such as the unrepentant
prewar right-winger Akao Bin and the late novelist Mishima Yukio. ..."
2. The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard Henry Ullman (1996)
"As one right-winger put it in Pravda at a time when Russia seemed unprepared to
act in defense of ethnic Russians abroad, ..."
3. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"One right-winger, perhaps a Bircher and probably a "gun nut," wrote to me
saying, "Who in the hell are you to rewrite the Constitution of the United States. ..."
4. Intervention Or Neglect: The United States and Central America Beyond the 1980s by Linda Robinson (1991)
"Although the society's deep cleavages remain, progress is demonstrated daily in
such events as a televised debate between the feared right-winger ..."
5. Turkey: Violations of Free Expression in Turkey by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Christopher Panico, Human Rights Watch (1999)
"It was even alleged that Mr. As. ik had helped the right-winger escape capture.
For his part, the ANAP minister denied wrongdoing. ..."
6. The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu, 1900-1993 by Li-Fu Ch'en, Hsu-hsin Chang, Ramon Hawley Myers (1994)
"... whereas the Communists believed him to be a right-winger. Both wanted him out
of power. In these circumstances Chiang was frustrated. ..."
7. Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays by Murray Newton Rothbard (2000)
"The present-day libertarian who adopts this or a similar view of the American
experience, tends to think of himself as an "extreme right-winger" ..."
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