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/ɹaɪt/
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[ɹaɪt]
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/ɹɑjt/
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[ɹɑjt]
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[ɹɑjʔ]
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[ɹɒɪʔ]
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/ɹiːt/
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/ɹeɪt/
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/ɹiːt/
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/ɾʌɪt/
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[ɾʌɪt]
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[ˈɾəɪt]
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/ɾaɪt/
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/ɹaɪt/
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[ɹaɪt]
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/ɹʌɪt/
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/ɹeɪt/
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[ɹəi̯t]
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[ɹei̯t]
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[ɹaɪθ̠]
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[ɻɐʏt]
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/ɹo̞ɪ/
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/ɹəɪ/
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/ɹo̞ɪʔ/
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/ɹəɪʔ/
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/ɹaɪt/
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[ɹɑe̯t]
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/ɹaːt/
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[ɹäːtʰ]
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Adjective
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
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Raise your right hand.
Near-synonym: starboard
After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.
Clockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
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The road up ahead contains a right bend.
Rotate the bolt to the right to tighten it.
Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
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Your answer is right.
That's not the right thing to do.
So I was right all along? C'mon. I want to hear you say it.
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If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you’re to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings? Why do you use me like this? It’s not right of you. You can’t expect me to be quiet under it.
Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
But when that patient requests access to medical care that violates some religious tenet, is it right that he or she either be denied outright or forced to seek an alternative facility?
Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.
Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
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This is the right tool for the job.
Is this the right software for my computer?
Healthy, sane, competent.
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I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
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“If I didn’t know the dear old fellow so well by now,” Tennington remarked to Miss Strong, “I should be quite certain that he was—er—not quite right, don’t you know.”
Real; veritable (used emphatically).
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You've made a right mess of the kitchen!
He's got a wicked sense of fun, he can be a right laugh, he's ever so broadminded – ooh, and he's got a lovely broad chest too.
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[…]in this battle and whole business the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians: no rule, no foresight, no forecast, experience, or estimation
Of an angle, measuring 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
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The walls meet at a right angle.
The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
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a right triangle a right prism a right cone
Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
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The Louvre Museum is on the right bank of the Seine.
Designed to be placed or worn outward.
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the right side of a piece of cloth Begin this stitch on the right side.
Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
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All right; not requiring assistance.
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Kirsty: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? Ken: No. I'm right, thanks.
When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right, sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
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'You lost?' Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right, thanks,' said Colin.'
Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
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The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
Straight, not bent.
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a right line
Of or relating to the right whale.
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In the course of the day we saw several large whales of the right species, and innumerable flights of the albatross passed over the vessel.
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On the right side.
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Towards the right side.
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Turn right at the bridge.
Exactly, precisely.
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The shop is right beside the station.
The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
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Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
Immediately, directly.
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I will be right back.
Can't you see it? It's right beside you!
Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.
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You come right home this instant!
Very, extremely, quite.
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I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
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a right godly treatise
That's long enough for any small town." Lyon leaned forward. "Do you like Lawrenceville, Mr. Hill?" The driver cocked his head. "Aeah. Why not? Born here. It's a right nice town
Well, that would be right neighborly of you, miss.
But it would be right neighborly and Christian of you to put your own wants aside for a spell.
The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
Kids nowadays were a right thrillproof bunch. The Armoury Section had, unexpectedly, proved to be a real moodclunker.
Very, extremely, quite. To a great extent or degree.
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Sir, I am right glad to meet you …
Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
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The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.
Sith mercie in a Prince reſembleth right, The gladſome ſunne-ſhine in a winters day, […]
He b'iled right over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.
According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
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In a correct or proper manner.
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Do it right or don't do it at all.
Nothing is going right for me lately.
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Yes, that is correct; I agree.
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Right, that is what I meant.
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Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
Tell her you’re here. Right. Thanks, Pete.
— United's the best team in the country. — Right. And they'll go all the way for sure. — Damn right they will.
I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
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Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.
— United's the best team in the country, so they'll come up with something. — Right. And do you think they'll go all the way?
Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
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— After that interview, I don't think we should hire her. — Right. Who wants lunch?
Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.
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You're going, right?
I went downstairs, right, and I was going to call her, but I found this note, right, so what am I supposed to do now?
Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
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Withnail: Right […] I'm gonna do the washing up.
Noun
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
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We're on the side of right in this contest.
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Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide.
A legal, just or moral entitlement.
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Everyone has the right to education.
You have no right to go through my personal diary.
There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
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"I do not know that you have any right to inquire into reasons for my conduct. I am at least sure that I never gave you any such right," replied Wiley. "I claim no right but the common right of humanity," said the old gentleman. "If you do not acknowledge that, my interference in this matter can only be viewed as impertinent."
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
The right side or direction.
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The pharmacy is on your right.
The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
The right hand or fist.
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"Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right, and he was sprawling on his back on the floor."
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Mr. Carrados smiled a good-humoured tolerance of the imbroglio in which they had both landed, leaned back in his chair and dropped a careless right into his coat pocket.
The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
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The proposal was supported by the right.
The political right holds too much power.
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Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
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Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on the right.
For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open.
In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.
A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
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To correct.
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Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.
To set upright.
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The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
To return to normal upright position.
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When the wind died down, the ship righted.
To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
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to right the oppressed
So just is God, to right the innocent.
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All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Adjective
being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north
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my right hand
right center field
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a right-hand turn
the right bank of a river is the bank on your right side when you are facing downstream
free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
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the correct answer
the correct version
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the right answer
took the right road
the right decision
socially right or correct
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it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye
correct behavior
in conformance with justice or law or morality
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do the right thing and confess
correct in opinion or judgment
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time proved him right
appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
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everything in its proper place
the right man for the job
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she is not suitable for the position
of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
in or into a satisfactory condition
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things are right again now
put things right
intended for the right hand
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a right-hand glove
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
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what's the right word for this?
the right way to open oysters
having the axis perpendicular to the base
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a right angle
(of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward
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the right side of the cloth showed the pattern
be sure your shirt is right side out
(informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
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that is one fine dog
a right fine day
most suitable or right for a particular purpose
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a good time to plant tomatoes
the right time to act
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the time is ripe for great sociological changes
precisely accurate
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a veracious account
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an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
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they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away
location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
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he stood on the right
the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
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those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
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the hand that is on the right side of the body
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he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left
hit him with quick rights to the body
a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east
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take a right at the corner
anything in accord with principles of justice
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he feels he is in the right
the rightfulness of his claim
(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing
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mineral rights
film rights
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precisely, exactly
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stand right here!
immediately
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she called right after dinner
in a face down manner
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he fell flop on his face
toward or on the right; also used figuratively
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he looked right and left
the party has moved right
in the right manner; correctly; suitably
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please do your job properly!
can't you carry me decent?
an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct
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(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
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the baby is mighty cute
he's mighty tired
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it is powerful humid
that boy is powerful big now
they have a right nice place
they rejoiced mightily
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely
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he was wholly convinced
entirely satisfied with the meal
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it was completely different from what we expected
was completely at fault
a totally new situation
the directions were all wrong
it was not altogether her fault
an altogether new approach
a whole new idea
she felt right at home
he fell right into the trap
in accordance with moral or social standards
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that serves him right
do right by him
in an accurate manner
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the flower had been correctly depicted by his son
he guessed right
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make reparations or amends for
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right a wrong done to the victims of the Holocaust
put in or restore to an upright position
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They righted the sailboat that had capsized
regain an upright or proper position
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The capsized boat righted again
make right or correct
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Correct the mistakes
rectify the calculation