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RIGHTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With honesty
Example:
he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time
Synonyms:
justifiedly; justly; rightly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
right (in conformance with justice or law or morality)
Context examples:
If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to—Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I was very often influenced rightly by you—oftener than I would own at the time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Justly thought; rightly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this moment, I am paving hell with energy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Though we should be rightly concerned about the emergence of resistance overall for this condition, the benefits of the 10-day regimen greatly outweigh the risks.”
(No benefit to shortening ear infection treatment, NIH)
Let me be rightly understood.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Have I been rightly informed?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don’t know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And he read rightly, and he read well.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“I don't rightly know, sir,” answered Morgan.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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