How To Use Rightfully In A Sentence

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
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

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
And I never asked you if you thought I was paranoid, I am * rightfully paranoid* and I'm ok with that. PhpBB.com
For the _cordon-bleu_ hoped that the lion would exhibit disapproval of the paint and powder by chumping off the offending head, and that would have been frightfully thrilling. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
And the Islamist movement, of which he disapproves rightfully so, is that to be seen as an abreaction to the West? The Volokh Conspiracy » Joseph Massad Awarded Tenure at Columbia:
I'm afraid France took engravings and etchings, while it was a frightfully disappointing year for reliefs, with no gold medal awarded at all. Pole dancing seeks an Olympic leg-up | Marina Hyde
While a controversy ensued, Hansen rightfully received acknowledgment as the discoverer of the leprosy bacillus.
As the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he rightfully believed that the title position put his place in the uppity-stratospheric levels shared by other internationally famous, extremely wealthy and very powerful male WASP sports figures of his day (think Babe Ruth or John L. Sullivan). The Daily News - News
However, up until very recently, your average karaoke bar was a frightfully seedy affair.
Frightfully good new state secondary up the road, darling. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully "wispy," like a mop. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
By prayer and fasting Stephen sought the conversion of all Hungary; rightfully is he called the apostle of his nation. Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary
Hardly deserving of 'the most trusted man in America' moniker either; history has shown that he was frightfully deceitful. Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch
The notional $1.14 quadrillion (as reported by the Bank for International Settlements, which is in Switzerland) only becomes real (and frightfully dangerous) if either counterparty to a derivative goes bankrupt and if the defaulter is a major institution. Dinocrat
What share of market is rightfully ours?
Lots of them, of course, were frightfully swell (Betty annexed "frightfully" at school, by the by) and had all sorts of clothes; but Betty was perfectly content with her modest outfit, and none of the other girls seemed to mind how she dressed. The Fortune Hunter
I say, I beg your pardon, frightfully — I'm afraid I'm bein 'beastly long-winded. Whose Body?
I've been informed that he considers me frightfully underbred. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
I felt pretty bad and was fully ready to accept the earful that was rightfully due my way and apologise for my out of order behaviour.
The irony is that, with his frightfully pukka delivery and actorish manner, Stephens's hero seems to be of an older stylistic vintage than anyone else on stage.
The sharpies who run these corporations found loopholes in our laws that allow them to dodge paying the taxes they rightfully owe.
I will remind you all that the only person to rightfully be accoladed with the title of Shekinah (Savior) by the Jews was Cyrus the Persian. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
'frightfully' something or other during the evening. The Head of the House of Coombe
Being so frightfully concerned for her, I refused to touch the soft fontanel at the top of her head for any reason. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands. One Cent Baby
Berlin academy conducted its transactions first in Latin, next and for many years to come in French, and one of its earliest presidents, a man of special competence, pronounced German to be a noble but frightfully barbarized tongue. Voltaire
Adrian Paul seems distant, unengaged (rightfully so from what I've seen of the season thus far).
And they get frightfully cross if you don't pay attention. Times, Sunday Times
She, too, was in debt; "frightfully," her husband had used the right word; International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
In all spheres of social, economic and political relationships we are 'frightfully' revolutionary. ANC Today
Colin Powell rightfully should have and very likely would have made a pretty fine SoS if he hadn't has Dick Cheney and his PNAC cabal sneaking around behind him undercutting everything he tried to do, badmouthing him to Bush every time he left the room and basically shivving him in the kidneys any time his back was turned. Hillary: I'll Send Colin Powell Abroad As My Emissary
I was so worn out with all their stopping and detaining me, it got to be frightfully hard work emerging from the flood of felicitations. tandem abii ad praetorem; ibi vix requievi: rogo syngraphum, datur mi ilico; dedi Tyndaro: ille abiit domum. inde ilico praevortor domum, postquam id actum est; eo protinus ad fratrem, mei ubi sunt alii captivi. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
This shows consumers should do battle with big insurers over payouts they think are rightfully due. The Sun
I sat down on the frightfully uncomfy seat and placed the sword on the battered wooden table.
The third person in the triangle is receiving affection and intimacy that rightfully belongs to the spouse.
The department responsible for food stamps and improving conditions for the rural poor should rightfully be held to the highest human-rights standard.
Furthermore, so long as human greatness is not a pronounced feature in their religious beliefs, one may rightfully conclude that their crude religious agencies, rioting in impiousness and revelling in infamy, can never function that moral and spiritual potency required to regenerate the negro race. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
None of this would be objectionable if these frightfully expensive computer-aided super-spy devices were as efficient at detecting cocaine as they are for arms and ammunition.
Fortunately, I've recently discovered a way to prevent the jackbooted Federal thugs from invading your bank account and stealing tax money which should rightfully be yours if the government lacked any taxation system.
While Lin has rightfully introduced Asian / Asian American characters to a franchise about cars and racing (and further cemented the "ricer" stereotype to street-racing fans), these movies still fail to focus the camera squrely on Asian Americans. Reappropriate
I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine.
The impression on an anti-Semite or potential anti-Semite is that the 'happenstance' of his vet status saves him from being rightfully obliterated. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
The Baker Wind Turbine not only has a wider range of operation but also produces more power at any given wind speed than a propeller driven wind mill and therefore the new turbine wind energy technology should rightfully outmode the old propeller driven windmill technology. A Wind Turbine for Every Rooftop?
It rightfully could be claimed as a Maine Coon mix, but could he rightfully be called a Maine Coon? About.com Cats
Consequently, one important issue regarding the Danish Cartoons is that Muslims felt discriminated against by Danish law (and I believe defensibly, if not rightfully, so). The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
Consequently, one important issue regarding the Danish Cartoons is that Muslims felt discriminated against by Danish law and I believe defensibly, if not rightfully, so. The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
Some Native Americans, including some of the Puyallup tribe, are newly pushing to re-designate the mountain Ti'Swaq, "to rightfully reclaim and restore the Creator (God) given names to the holy and sacred sites, starting with what is now known as Mount Rainier," according to the advocates 'website. Crosscut
She was only claiming what was rightfully hers.
Baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime.
I'm frightfully sorry about the delay.
Everyone thought that was frightfully romantic!
I'm frightfully sorry about the noise last night.
As Wallace rightfully notes, the observer outside of the hole sees it as a void, an empty place in space.
Cream never did reunite, but are rightfully acknowledged as the earliest incarnations of blues-based hard rock bands, soon to become a staple of the rock diet.
We took her ashore with us -- each holding one arm, for she was frightfully staggery at first -- and made her smuggle our cigarettes for us through the custom-house. Lalage's Lovers
These individuals may rightfully perceive that under such conditions, leaving is the only available option.
Than sone after was callid a set a parliament, wherynne alle the comoens were aggreed, and rightfully electe hym as heire apparent of England, nought to procede in any other matiers till that were graunted by the lordes, whereto the kyng and lordes wold not consent nor graunte, but anon brake up the parliamente. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
Neither a serf nor a villein (a class of serf attached as a bondsman to a specific lord and/or manor) rightfully owned the land upon which he worked.
It was a half-hearted attempt to draw level and one which referee Colin Hardie rightfully ignored.
She reasoned it would be best to keep her position until rightfully relieved from duty, and rubbed her weary eyes.
He was frightfully puritanical at the time as regards deviance of any kind. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
I've tried to tell her that visible collarbones are considered very attractive nowadays, to which I got a frightfully rhino-like snort from my eavesdropping dad and a pitiful look from my mom.
Never once do you buy him as a beat down working class stiff who just needs a break to get what he more or less rightfully deserves.
They probably think silk shirts are frightfully common. Times, Sunday Times
We all know she wants it to get out there so her racist west virginians can get rid of Obama and she can rightfully get what she considers is hers. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
Rightfully, when I came in Jerome (Bettis) was the guy. Steelers tight end Miller excels at right time
Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense.
Their outlook towards a venomous German attempt to do something "frightfully" nasty, is very similar to a large and powerful nurse dealing with a fractious child -- sort of: "Now, then, Master Frankie, you mustn't kick and scream like that. Bullets & Billets
As a former player for, and now supporter of, Liverpool Football Club, this is the type of ownership group Liverpool should be looking to take the club back to where it rightfully belongs.
And ye merry host being as much moneylender, guller of country bumpkins and young gallants, as he was publican; and the drawer always managing to add a few more chalk-marks to the board than were rightfully yours — The Dirty Duck
She was frightfully noisy; she clarioned her hallelujah hymns at the top of her voice, regardless of what company might be in the house. From Place to Place
Loupgarou, lifting up his mace, advanced one step upon him, and with all his force would have dashed it upon Pantagruel, wherein, to speak to the truth, he so sprightfully carried himself, that, if Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The number of people who decided whether or not our song would be played was frightfully small.
But it cannot be in an avowry to a replevin, becaufe the avowry is to juftify the taking the cattle \ and whether the mo - ney is paid or not, is not the queftion; but if the diftrefs was rightfully taken, the avowant muft have a return; if wrongfully, he muft anfwer the plaintiff's damages. Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
Just after Ukrainian independence Russia actually claimed that Sevastopol and much of the area around Yalta rightfully belonged to Russia (in the same way that Kaliningrad is still Russian territory). Matthew Yglesias » Strategic Significance
He was frightfully overpraised; how hard is it to be a travel writer? Times, Sunday Times
Playing a psychotic once again in Cape Fear in 1991, De Niro was frightfully convincing as the vengeful convict.
It will definitely help bring some peace of mind to law-abiding citizens who are rightfully concerned about the safety of their children.
Some individual is selected, and often selected very injudicially, as the representative of every great movement of the public mind, of every great revolution in human affairs; and on this individual are concentrated all the love and all the hatred, all the admiration and all the contempt, which he ought rightfully to share with a whole party, a whole sect, a whole nation, a whole generation. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
Jesus was trying to sneak burlap into his garment instead of showcasing it as the main fabric, sewing yard after yard of ribbon over the burlap, creating a lame-o green and brown dress that was later called matronly, and rightfully so. The Clog
You never dream that you are making me frightfully unhappy.
He is in ninety percent of the film and rightfully so. X-Men Origins: Wolverine [Brett's Review] « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
I was also speaking broadly and generally here, I admit something you've warred against throughout, and rightfully so, but I have no real intention of getting any nittier or grittier. On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight
I now realize why and how puffed pastry is so expensive in bakeries and rightfully so due to the extreme labor and expense that is put into it. Archive 2009-08-01
They're pretty funny, and frightfully accurate… they also seem a little mean-spirited.
So the column's author mocks the apparent paranoia of gun owners who (rightfully) don't want the government to classify gun ownership as an (assumably) taxable "unhealthy" lifestyle. Guns = "Unhealthy" Lifestyle?
Was it intimidating stepping into this frightfully sophisticated world of aesthetes and orthorexics? Times, Sunday Times
This does not excuse the behaviour that we saw, which has rightfully been condemned by all parties and is completely unacceptable. The Sun
That sense of celluloid sumptuousness is tangibly present in 2005's standalone Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent, which tells the story of "child genius" Hubert and his "frightfully, frightfully rich" parents, flighty socialites who own mansions in London and Milan and a "swankily swell house in New York". A life in books: Lauren Child
This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers"). Steven Weber: To Er Is Human
My muscles are still frightfully sore, but they are looser then yesterday.
It was innocent stuff by today's standards, but considered frightfully daring at the time. Times, Sunday Times
I was a fraud, a composite of traits I felt rightfully belonged to these two.
Since children are regenerated even before birth, it is really the church and society, as guided by the church, that rightfully lead the way in their education.
That "Cagliostro" is rightfully placed in the category of pseudo-alchemists is certain, but it also appears equally certain that, charlatan though he was, posterity has not always done him that justice which is due to all men, however bad they may be. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
Because we're frightfully busy here at the office, all I can give you now is reassurance that the lady and I are okay, a little bruised and sore, but okay.
It is frightfully fashion-forward to speak of how the Levy must be replaced by a more up-to-date mechanism that – how does the line go? Our old dames of the Turf, the Levy and Tote, need care and attention
She, too, was in debt; "frightfully" her husband had used the right word; "hopelessly" so far as satisfying her creditors, even out of the large allowance Mr. Ferrars made her; and still she had not the courage voluntarily to tell the truth, which yet she knew must burst upon him ere long. The Wedding Guest
Owing to your world-view, you are sensitive to issues like under-representation and rightfully lament what you have witnessed all your life; poor people and more specifically, people of color for the most part are once again missing from the table. Blogosphere Racist?
Before that she was frightfully keen on a thing called uric acid. Priscilla's Spies
These people are not really 'conservatives' as we have known such people in earlier times, who were fundamentally decent people, but a newer breed of elitists who might more properly be called corpo-fascists based on their desired policies of instituting corporate governments primarily of, by and for the corporate-banker-investors, supportive of Big Business and treating the people more like serfs and slaves tugging the forelock in general and doing as Their Betters Require than citizens who rightfully own their democratic country. Lefty media bias? Hardly
To come suddenly, on turning a corner, upon a colossal warrior, deterrently uncouth and frightfully battle-clad, in the act of dispatching a fallen foe, is a sensation not instantly dispelled by the fact that he is made of flowers. The Soul of the Far East
In that book he famously tagged ol 'Hank (and pretty much rightfully so) with the moniker “War Criminal” and left it there an ugly part of him, like a huge, un-ignorable goiter around his neck. Archive 2009-09-01
Outside of the top five teams, it all seems frightfully close, doesn't it? Times, Sunday Times
Miranda awakens and Prospero summons their slave Caliban, who curses them, remembering their kinder treatment when they first came to the island, which he insists is rightfully his.
China takes the currency issue very seriously -- and rightfully so.
Dumisani Ncamazama was given a golden opportunity to further re-habilitate himself outside prison, however he has misused that opportunity and must stay behind bars where he rightfully belongs for the rest of his life," Setsetse said. ANC Daily News Briefing
The sword swished frightfully through the air, and inflicted on the Count’s neck a wound slight indeed, but a trifle deeper than the barely visible scratch which had been given to the others. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
In all, if one pulls apart the threads of the Professor’s post, one sees that the prudentialism which he rightfully criticizes is likely quite distinct from the empathy to which President Obama refers. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
Now, as you rightfully know, my sons have their fates outlined by war and piousness, as other young men have.
Some of what it has produced does sound frightfully cogent for a non-human product.
The Met were rightfully hammered and shaken up into a better police force although sadly most of the compensation was swallowed up by feverish vain legal teams.
It was a half-hearted attempt to draw level and one which referee Colin Hardie rightfully ignored.
Bordered by the Anacostia River (which many insist is rightfully named the Eastern Branch), Pennsylvania Avenue, 25th Street, Naylor Road and Good Hope Road, Fairlawn is a mix of traditional D.C. rowhouses, detached single-family homes and apartment buildings. Optimism is alive in Southeast D.C. neighborhood of Fairlawn
He is rightfully regarded as one of the founding fathers of nephrology, with his name immortalized in the eponym Bright's disease.
Killing a police officer is something that's taken very seriously and rightfully so.
From that Authority, however, they, in closing -- somewhat inconsistently but most rightfully -- demanded once more the 'indifferency' which becometh God's Lieutenant. John Knox
His advisers are rightfully hesitant to let the United States be sucked into the conflict.
The latter is especially inviting, as Dark Horse Comics released three frightfully king-sized collections in time for All Hallow's Eve. October 2009
But this just goes to show you that in order to be a respected black man you must be submissive and wait your turn to get the respect you rightfully deserve from a white man, till whenever the white man gets comfortable enough to give it to you. Powell calls Palin a 'fascinating figure'
He shoulders through the throng to claim what's rightfully his.
During a discussion in Queens, a working-class neighborhood if ever there was one, rightfully pissed-off average people pelted Dudley with questions about the ways in which the detestably prevalent practice of commodities speculation had driven up the prices of all sorts of things that actually have a real-world impact on people: food, gas, electricity, etc. Chez Pazienza: Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds?
The indignant theorist casts aspersions on their methods, inserts a non sequitur regarding its effects and explains how this is frightfully unfair for the "little guy".
Great beach, good food, frightfully stylish surroundings. Times, Sunday Times
Killing a police officer is something that's taken very seriously and rightfully so.
After all, he has rightfully gained renown for his prolific writing and acute insight into current affairs.
He gets placement on a major Sunday morn gabfest despite what can be rightfully labeled as his touting of inflammatory wingnut hallicinations. Matthew Yglesias » The Tilted Media
The same unquenchable, almost frightfully unresting spirit of endeavor, directed (woe is me!) to the making of money, or money's worth; namely, food finer and finer, and gigmanic renown higher and higher: nay, must not your gigmanity be a The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Her dark laughter sent shivers down my spine, and the birds flew away from their perches, rightfully frightened by her voice.
He often aphorized, "Frightfully hackneyed to say, The Job An American Novel
Pardon me for saying, but it does seem convenient that the prophecies change expediently; for example receiving a new revelation on polygamy in order for Utah to gain statehood and a new revelation on racial integration at a time when the church was being rightfully attacked on its "whitesome and brightsome" doctrine. Planet Atheism
Foreigners are rightfully afraid of the historic global reputation of the Mexican police and Federales, as their 'compliance' is based exclusively on a justifiable concern for both property AND person. Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
But it required a particular sense of cavalier gall to display the jewel in the crown in all its glory, scintillating under the spring sky, a diamond that many in India believe rightfully belongs to them, on this solemn occasion.
Tudor, having pulled through the fever and started to mend, was still frightfully weak and very much starved. Chapter 24
He brought what was known as a mandamus proceeding — which is a taxpayers 'proceeding to determine who is rightfully entitled to the tax money in the form of the salary for sheriff of Madison County. Oral History Interview with Zeno Ponder, March 22, 1974. Interview A-0326. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
First, we have been rightfully taught to always question stats and not to generalise them.
What is missing from all of this is the notion of the self-possessed individual who can cope with the vagaries of life and can rightfully demand that the state stops interfering in his or her life.
That was a frightfully clever four no-trump call of yours. ' Hercule Poirot's Casebook
I cannot derive from another anything more than what he himself rightfully has; and although as regards the form of the acquisition the modus acquirendi — I may proceed in accordance with all the conditions of right when I deal in a stolen horse exposed for sale in the market, yet a real title warranting the acquisition was awanting; for the horse was not really the property of the seller in question. The Science of Right
baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
She also said this: the public rightfully is still making it anissue The Volokh Conspiracy » Massive Problems with Anti-Obama Allegations That Have Been Making the Rounds Recently
I'm frightfully sorry about the noise last night.
Dederer's memoir has rightfully added to this generation's blog-y conversations about parenting, a demographic which not only obsesses about doing the over-the-top but needs to endlessly analyze it. Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Poser, My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses
These are the best examples of how frightfully inconvenient things can get ... Times, Sunday Times
And some of the ways they get to flex that saving-grace rapier wit are ultimately deeply unlikable because they’re often just plain bitchy about it, and mean humour wears so frightfully thin, thin as our svelte raven-haired cerulean-eyed heroine. Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room
But in the flesh, trim and handsome, she seems wilfully unshowy and, well, frightfully nice.
That is why millions of Americans rightfully rejoiced when it was discovered that we now have a candidate who harkens back to those halcyon days of tribal chiefdom. A Better Way to Judge the Candidates | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The furniture rightfully belongs to you.
I am very glad to see women rightfully asserting themselves in the labor movement.
Our stories, our lives, are the only thing we truly own all to ourselves – these are the things we know, clouded by self-deceit or self-conceit as they may be, they are still rightfully ours. Narcissus and Me | Her Bad Mother
She rightfully takes exception to New Zealand texts, which purport to democratise the understanding of war but fail to contextualise women's experiences.
I'm frightfully sorry about the delay.
They just want you to have what's rightfully yours: your birthright, your homeland, free from those whose ‘biological, genetic and evolutionary ancestry’ is inferior to yours.
The Carolinas can rightfully claim to be the cradle of American barbecue and Texas is by far the brisket capital of the world.
My sister pointed out if she had made her horse wait 18 months she would have found herself in front of a judge, answering charges of cruelty to animals, and rightfully so.

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