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noun

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Noun
  • The clip has aired to the delight of conservatives online.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • And Meta has taken a number of steps to appease Trump, including ending its fact-checking program, something Trump supporters and other conservatives have long attacked as biased.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Photo: Corcoran Sutton Place has a reputation for being a little stodgy, but this one-bedroom is pretty sophisticated.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The Green Team diversifies, selecting a few slices of stodgy pizza before hitting up the candy aisle for candy corn, Red Hots, and caramel corn.
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Brat is an archconservative who knocked out an establishment Republican, but his district is changing.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 June 2018
Adjective
  • Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Because Jesuits often sided with El Salvador’s poor and some kept records of human rights violations, they were hated by the country’s ultraright.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • Stephen Graham is mulling over the right word to capture the past month of his life.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Like the game show, there’s some guessing and gut instinct that goes into finding the right price for a deal.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the cutout neckline and darted bodice prevent it from being dowdy.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Jane and Kit stand on either side, looking dowdy in black dresses and veils (not really an Irish thing).
    Cullen Murphy, airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The billionaire Ackman, a staunch Trump supporter, put the market's fears about the fate of the global economy in the starkest terms possible.
    Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 6 Apr. 2025
  • What To Know Tuberville, a staunch Trump supporter, joined guest host Jackie DeAngelis on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss the recent Senate GOP budget, which passed 51-48 on Saturday, with Republican Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine voting against the bill.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Right-wing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-wing. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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