How To Use Rightly In A Sentence

The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.
The image is generally a thing of beauty with colours brightly and faithfully rendered.
The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.

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From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
I don't think this is what people think here, and it will be suicidal in - in the mind of anyone who thinks rightly.
Didn't prevaricate but answered forthrightly and honestly.
Wealth is something that we are all encouraged to aspire to, rightly or wrongly. Times, Sunday Times
Officers and sailors who normally wear winter rig came to work in jeans, brightly coloured shirts and for some, riding boots.
It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.
He beat his wing veins again, his scarlet eyes burning brightly from out his metal skull plating.
I don't rightly know how these panthers and cheetahs and tigers came to inhabit the park in the first place.
Many listeners are, rightly, suspicious of free jazz as a refuge for those who simply cannnot "play" in the accepted sense.
The girl smiled even more brightly, showing off her straight teeth.
Her clothes were long and loose, the shawl brightly colored and rimmed with tassels.
The kitchen was warm and brightly lit .
Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
They can be rightly proud of all that they have achieved.
Two examples, from her impressive "Transformation" disc, are the pianist's soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor and her sprightly, exceptionally characterful transversal of Igor Stravinsky's Three Movements From "Petrushka," a transcription based on his ballet score. The Fast and the Serious
Obviously the manager gets stick, rightly or wrongly, but that's just the way football is.
Ministers have rightly been reluctant to force banks to make uneconomic loans. Times, Sunday Times
She looked less ferocious and was actually smiling brightly at us.
The sun shone brightly through the spreading leaves of the oak trees that surrounded the court.
Wealthy women might have a string of brightly coloured beads linking the two brooches across the chest.
Already the bridge was beginning to shine brightly, to appear angry and sore, belying the fixed smile which split his features. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
America's priority is rightly to stimulate its economy.
Stuffed into the neck of the bottle was a flame engulfed rag, blazing brightly.
People are worried, rightly of course, about economics but in the end those who do not share end up not actually enriched. Times, Sunday Times
I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current.
All the while, resentment is building up in the hearts and minds of the majority who, rightly or wrongly, perceive that the gurriers are laughing at them and thumbing their noses at the law.
Even though pittas are often very brightly colored, the color is usually located either on their undersides or on areas that can be covered when the wings are folded.
I think it's these areas that people are immersed in when they're moved to speak of Freud's outdatedness, and perhaps rightly so.
Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
Even if linked to a typically American automatic gearbox of only four speeds, it has sprightly performance.
But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age?
‘Hullo, hullo!’ the first one exclaimed brightly.
These critics have rightly emphasized Tourgee's influence on Chesnutt's career as a writer, as one of the sparks which ignited his literary aspirations.
Justice Ginsburg rightly described this as overbroad, and she cited Court precedent that "ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity. Conrad Black's Revenge
On the slightly down-at-heels Upper West Side block where the story unfolds, happiness — or the closest Schine's brightly downbeat characters can come to it — is next to dogginess. Doggy Affections
A host of excitable angels crowds around the manger's tiny, brightly lit doll. Times, Sunday Times
She hunkers down slightly further away, hugging her legs with both arms and asking brightly: ‘What were you going to say to Sharon?’
He needed intelligently and forthrightly to answer her charges and demonstrate sympathy for her embattled position.
His tactical acumen has been rightly criticised, but in the end it seems even his motivational powers were dimmed when he lost his spark for the job.
‘What is it?’ said I. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘since God is rightly believed to govern all things with the rudder of goodness, and since all things do likewise, as I have taught, haste towards good by the very aim of nature, can it be doubted that His governance is willingly accepted, and that all submit themselves to the sway of the Disposer as conformed and attempered to His rule?’ Consolation of Philosophy
Above the calyx is a broad spreading corolla which is white or brightly colored and is divided into several distinct parts called petals. The First Book of Farming
Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Political pundits are often accused, usually rightly, of overstating the significance of by-election results.
The art is in distilling it without loosing the meaning, and as you rightly say, putting it in the audiences terms. The importance of being simple « One Size Fits One
Local residents rightly also have concerns about noise. The Sun
It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance. Times, Sunday Times
None of the youngsters made long-winded speeches, but they said it all through sprightly dances that were a celebration of life and an exhibition of talent.
Reform is inevitable and the coalition rightly aims to address the looming problem. Times, Sunday Times
My friend looked and walked like an exceedingly tall, lame ostrich with his legs hopelessly entangled in brightly colored cloth.
The costume concept for the entire program consisted of leotards and unitards, unadorned and brightly colored or adorned in various ways that spelled economy but not always high ingenuity.
Women who choose to remain childless are free to compete as men do but their femininity is suspect and it, rightly, pisses them off. It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother
Brightly-coloured neon signs are mostly used as rooftop advertisements for hotels or other commercial institutions.
He speaks as both the film's director and star, and rightly heaps praise on his cast, both leads and supporting actors, whose excellent work adds much depth to the film.
First, it has no truck with the tendency towards gratuitous supersizing, which rightly worries dieticians and games teachers alike. Times, Sunday Times
• The rally has also been rightly criticized for pretending to be non-political while talking in apocalyptical terms about the country going in the wrong direction under the current administration. David Coates: The Hijacking of the Almighty
Senator Lott has apologized, and rightly so," a stern-visaged Bush said. Ghosts Of The Past
In the brightly illuminated room beyond the hall Helena and Gregory were playing parchesi -- Gregory firmly grasped the cup from which he intently rolled the dice; Helena shook the fair hair from her eyes and, it immediately developed, moved a pink marker farther than proper. Cytherea
It is rightly taught as an essential part of biology and science courses in schools, colleges and universities across the world. Times, Sunday Times
Secretary Small and Deputy Secretary Burke have exhibited a head-in-the-sand attitude toward wrongdoing at their agency; they have engaged in stonewalling and spin rather than dealing forthrightly with the discrimination that has occurred. Another Government Report Supports Sternberg
When punk rock burns brightly, it is capable of amazing feats of transmutation.
The stars twinkled brightly in the night sky above her head.
Did I spell your name right? Rightly cannot be used like this. In formal language correctly is used:Is your name spelled correctly?
About 5.00 am the Paschal Fire will be set alight and it will be blazing brightly in the sky as people file up for the 6.00m Mass.
The place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vans from one brightly lit cavern to another. Excerpt: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Ligeti went to see the film in 1968 and was rightly incensed.
Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
Last night I built the first fire I've kindled in years and it came back to me, that instinctual pull of watching the flames catch, of stirring the embers, and poking the logs until they burn brightly.
The home side started brightly and they did have the visitors defence under real pressure during the opening minutes of the match.
The pale walls provide a perfect foil for the brightly coloured furniture.
These are rightly seen as probingly sculptural, but one at least is open to a strangely anthropoid, romantic interpretation. Times, Sunday Times
Dwarves, all wearing brightly coloured pointy hats, hurried pass on all manner of errands.
As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves. California Literary Review
Cohen pointed out, quite rightly, that ‘there were 20 million reasons’ (the number of people killed by Stalin) to abominate the name of Stalin beyond all others.
The developer also appears to have paid special attention to weapons effects, with pyrotechnical ricochets and brightly flaring muzzle flashes particularly deserving of praise.
Instead they have all called his bluff, and rightly so. Times, Sunday Times
Professor Brightly walked into the lecture hall with a pile of dog-eared notes under his arm.
The VC itself has rightly attained iconic status. Times, Sunday Times
With the brightly coloured banderillas (barbed darts) he approaches the bull excellently and positions them carefully on the neck, bringing the crowd to its feet with applause.
They ought to be demanding that the presidential candidates speak out forthrightly on these issues.
Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so.
I seek to change the focus of politics in Ireland away from money and back to families, where it rightly belongs.
They were shown how to make colourful outfits, tabards, headbands and banners using brightly coloured silks that they painted.
Mama herself is the perfect hostess, her beaming smile, sparkling eyes and brightly printed dress catching the kids' attention from the start.
The story here concerns a pair of American innocents abroad—Lightning McQueen, the bright-red race car brightly voiced by Owen Wilson, and Tow Mater, the buck-toothed, good-hearted tow truck who speaks in the cornpone tones of Larry the Cable Guy. Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
As reviewer Ron Charles rightly points out, "the jacket flap tries to dress up the book in the clothing of a coherent story, but the title offers complete truth in advertising: This is indeed a monstrous collection of notes. A Monster's Notes
The sun shone brightly in a cloudless sky.
Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.
Special non-trading one-offs rightly get taken out to reflect underlying performance.
Moiseyev has added a few new dances, at least new to New York, including a hilarious sailor's dance called A Day on Board a Ship, as well as adaptations from Venezuela and Argentina and a sprightly Spanish jota.
Below this formal structure lies a crucial reality, which Penn is almost alone in forthrightly disclosing: students have a much better chance of being admitted if they apply early decision than if they wait to join the regular pool. The Early-Decision Racket
The prime minister was widely judged, rightly or wrongly, to be an honest man.
She, quite rightly, is suing the government for its unconscionable treatment of her. Archive 2009-09-01
Without any warning, the lights flickered then turned on brightly.
Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
The procession passed ranks of red-clad guards, their gold badges shining brightly in the sunlight, and turned into the sanded courtyard outside the hall.
Yet, the buzzard does not exist in such numbers for it to be a constant danger to the game preserves, and quite rightly it has been placed upon the list of protected birds.
It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch. She Closed Her Eyes
'Dr. Johnson has rightly said that the incommodities of a single life are necessary and certain, but those of a conjugal state are avoidable. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
There are rightly many comparisons made with South African apartheid, particularly the international anti-apartheid campaigns.
The mammies all wore the brightly coloured cloths wound tightly round their ample figures, and turban-like round their heads.
The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow.
A correspondent rightly faults me for not giving the direct quotation.
It was a clear night, the stars shone brightly over the river, and the city lights were reflected in a spectrum of colored points in the water.
It is in fact the dark evil of laziness and ignorance disguised as an altruistic urge and that is why you rightly feel anxious!
Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
These applicants were on the agreed facts rightly convicted and I would therefore refuse the leave sought.
Almost immediately on their arrival Nort and Dick, who were then rightly classed as "tenderfeet," became involved in a strange mystery. The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X
He has rightly interrupted his holiday in Spain to return to London.
The venture was rightly abandoned and instead the old position was split into more manageable, bite-sized pieces.
Parole in Libertà Futuriste Olfattive Tattili Termiche Words in Futurist, Olfactory, Tactile, Thermal Freedom is made from tin and consists of 27 lithographed pages filled with words, poetic phrases and brightly coloured graphic images. February 2009
Plenty of countries rightly 'meddled' in the affairs of the United States when they saw black children being blown down by powerful water hoses and attacked by dogs at civil rights marches. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Spectator of the Free World: Obama and Iran
Peter Manso: erm, I was using "sprightly" as a compliment - as in, "energetic" etc. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
The construction was rightly criticised as requiring a knowledge of the ratio of a line and an arc of a circle, so one assumed as known the property required to square the circle in the first place.
Her white polygonal eyes shined brightly through the faceplate of her black environmental suit. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf. Flashman on the March
The judge quite rightly says that he has to interpret the law as it's been passed.
People expect a better performance from us on a consistent basis and rightly so. Times, Sunday Times
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.
On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede.
The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily.
What we think are flowers are actually brightly hued leaf bracts.
People will rightly want to see an explanation for these extravagant stays. The Sun
At ix 73 he rightly prints _laxate_; the apparatus gives no indication that this is a conjecture, and that all manuscripts, including _B_ and _C_, read _iactate_, which he had printed in 1894. The Last Poems of Ovid
Anyway, Nicole got a grip on herse; f. `Tell you what," she said brightly. A MEANS TO EVIL
I think a lot of folks are quite rightly suspicious, prima faciae, of skin color - if we are serious about moving beyond this, that ought to be addressed and taken off the table as an issue. Bob Gibson Savages Scottie Griffin at cvillenews.com
The brightly colored fish that had been nibbling at the tips of her gloved fingers darted away.
Those who are worried about these traditions falling into oblivion should preserve them in the archives where they rightly belong.
His genius is pure beauty, a creative flame burning so brightly we can hardly look at it.
Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom. The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
Set up everything in a brightly lit environment, with appropriate anti-static measures.
But he and his advisers rightly think his best sales point is his image as an antipolitical politician, a country doctor turned governor who boasts of "my directness and my unwillingness to bend" as he bluntly diagnoses all the ills of American life. There's A Chill In The Air
It is precisely as the ‘servant-leader’ of the gathered community that the presbyter rightly presides at its Eucharistic celebration.
The buck is passed back where it rightly belongs.
The material is brightly presented and every effort is made to ensure its accuracy.
Every thing in this peaceful family sitting-room wore a snug and comfortable look, from the neat bed standing in a recess in the wall, with homemade blue woolen spread and snowy linen, to the brightly-polished powter plates upon the dresser and the unsoiled sand on the white floor. My third book
They rightly pointed out that nowadays you can prevent or detect these problems early.
A fire burned merrily in the hole, crackling brightly with orange and yellow flames.
Seyyed Nasr rightly but abstrusely laments science's inability to fit consciousness into nature.
It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance. Times, Sunday Times
Reform is inevitable and the coalition rightly aims to address the looming problem. Times, Sunday Times
This allows progeny to be genotyped as pupae, since the guts of pupae carrying a green balancer fluoresce brightly.
The wormlike, often brightly colored, hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.
His face looked distant though, and rightly unamused.
My mistake was in not making clear that there is no direct conversion formula, that one has, as you quite rightly say, to convert Kms to Miles and to convert Litres to Gallons and then it's a snack.
Although the away side started brightly, West Ham recorded the first big opportunity on goal.
Some people see cyclists as posers with their skin-tight brightly coloured Lycra jerseys, padded shorts and shaved legs.
The word rightly translated 'laboured' will appear in its full force if I recall to you a couple of other places in which it is employed in the New Testament. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
As we walked on, beautiful Indian sunbirds, their iridescent green flanks flashing brightly in the sunlight, flew past in a profusion of colours.
As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly.
This picture is lewdly anti-authority and rightly infamous for giving its characters the kind of potty-mouths that Navy men are supposed to have. Top 10 Military Comedies » Scene-Stealers
Brightly coloured violas and begonias peek from every possible spot of dirt.
The service staff are brightly decked out in orange and black and met us with big smiles and took us to our table.
The Great Depression of the 1930s -- the last time the term rightly applied -- was industrial capitalism's worst calamity. You Call this a Depression?
The residents are quite rightly convinced it will blight the area and lead to increased crime and a downward spiral of house prices.
It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in.
For this, if it is true, he was rightly vilified, especially by the left. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, male peacocks not only have a long tail, but they are brightly colored and have eye spots, a crest on their head, spurs on their feet, and a mating call.
There was a long silence and inside of me a spark of hope lit up brightly.
I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
Princess Margaret's decision to be cremated has been rightly praised as being ecologically correct.
And I can tell you that the conclusions drawn from the testees is as clear as those from drawn by testors and you may rightly assume that "testees" was writ purposely to be amusing to the low-brow, juvenile mentality. Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
Rightly or wrongly, medical conditions concerning self-image are more commonly associated with girls, and much of the blame is apportioned to glossy magazines showing images of super-thin supermodels.
‘Things never change here on Walton Mountain,’ I narrated brightly, stepping over Joe's body, as he writhed comically on the floor.
Her name will, quite rightly, be besmirched and sullied until all eternity.
The Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ is ‘the central revelatory act of God’. Jesus is without original sin and Mary is rightly called Theotokos.
Book-lovers quite rightly like to find traces of the "deckle" edge, as evidence that a volume has not been unduly reduced by the binder. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
The law would be rightly open to ridicule, for transactions such as these are unexceptionable.
Everyone rightly feared the coming war.
He would open up the brightly coloured, beflowered trunk, pull out a fabulous costume - a magician, a bear, a dragon, a snowman - and he would play, unselfconsciously, at inhabiting those clothes.
As you rightly stated, the story reported was an accurate account of the events in the Council Chamber that evening.
It was a hot, still morning, when everything outdoors shone brightly, and all indoors was dusked with coolness and colour. The Trespasser
It was a grand old house, with weathered shingles and brightly painted gables and nautical touches everywhere, and it had been there forever. Rick Horowitz: After the Debt Deal: Drifting Away on Lake Parable
I don't mind you talking about me to your friends, but it doesn't seem any of them have a very high opinion of me. maybe rightly.
On the other hand, the mother, a sprightly nonagenarian, acquitted herself well in the interview, and both she and Ann came across as ‘better’ people as a result.
Shake it off, and there is fulfilled in the disobedient man the threatening of my text, which rightly translated ought to be, 'Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, and thou _hast_ made instead of them yokes of iron.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
Rightly or wrongly, we did what we did. The Sun
Rightly or wrongly, we British may not be renowned for the quality of our cooking.
The canty auld folk crackin 'crouse, [cheerful, talking brightly] Robert Burns How To Know Him
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
His early work was predominantly in fairly lightweight materials, including wood and mixed media, and was often brightly coloured, but in the late 1980s he changed direction.
At the head of the creek is the farm on which his grandfather was born, and in this beautiful locality were early nurtured those principles of liberty, which shone so brightly in his after years.
To my amazement, they were burning brightly as the rain fell and water dripped from the ash trees.
Neon for UI stuff is simply a reference to neon signs being brightly coloured and attracting the attention of people to tell them stuff, and Fluorine for gatewaying to the outside world because Fluorine has a very electronegative ion that binds aggressively to other atoms. Snell-Pym » Designing a general data model
And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true.
The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution.
His "Levities" are by their title exempted from the severities of criticism, yet it may be remarked in a few words that his humour is sometimes gross, and seldom sprightly. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
The works are fun and brightly coloured and will appeal to sons and dads alike.
Did I spell your name right? Rightly cannot be used like this. In formal language correctly is used:Is your name spelled correctly?
It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
Shafer was rightly showered with wild applause and bravos after Act I, to which she responded with faux-incredulous gestures of ‘Me?’
Liven up your kid's favorite green jello with brightly colored chewy sour candies.
The convention on human rights quite rightly doesn't cover the high seas. Times, Sunday Times
The sun shone above brightly and the birds sang pretty songs from their places in the blossoming cherry trees.
Yet a handful of committed neoconservative defense intellectuals in and out of government convinced the president, rightly or wrongly, to back the idea.

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