rightfully

[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪtfəli/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪtfəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. by right
    baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
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How To Use rightfully In A Sentence

  • Bhaiya, meanwhile, sent self-pitying letters from near Delhi where he was undergoing military training of his own trials in a world that he found ‘frightfully Poona: chukka, pukka, whisky soda and tiffin: still, I exist.’ Chaplin’s Girl
  • Get it right and everybody says how frightfully clever and amusing you are. Times, Sunday Times
  • The man who claims them as rightfully his says he hopes to one day mend the family rift.
  • In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. San Francisco Sentinel
  • The mancipable (conveyable or movable) possessions of a woman who is under tutelage of [her] agnates [18] shall not be acquired rightfully by usucapion (long usage or long possession), save if these The Twelve Tables
  • Today, the Uruguayan analyst Esteban Valenti has coined another phrase to rightfully describe his country's plight: los nuevos ricos (the nouveau poor).
  • Obviously, this depleted my escrow account also known as impound by about $1,800, which is the portion my neighbor Bill rightfully owes. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side. Captains Courageous
  • You're frightfully good at this sort of thing.
  • And again, I know how much the families of the victims are hurting, and rightfully, but Christ himself said there is no grace in forgiving your friends, but grace lies in forgiving your enemies. Schumer asks for U.N. condemnation of Libya
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