Definitions for rightly

rightly right·ly

Spelling: [rahyt-lee]
IPA: /ˈraɪt li/

Rightly is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in rightly (ghilrty).

Definitions for rightly

adverb

  1. in accordance with truth or fact; correctly:
  2. in accordance with morality or equity; uprightly.
  3. properly, fitly, or suitably:
  4. Informal. with certainty; positively:

Origin of rightly

before 900; Middle English; Old English rihtlīce. See right, -ly

Examples for rightly

No suspicion or fear can be rightly directed toward our country.

Waivers were also encouraged by states and the federal government who saw them, rightly, as a cost-cutting measure.

But he was a man and his own master—if you can rightly call a man his own master that does them things.

It rightly blames both Israeli and Palestinian intransigence for its failure.

Levin rightly disparages the “nostalgia” that he says “blinds” both liberals and conservatives to this new reality.

Now Wiseli first rightly understood these words, and felt their full meaning.

My wife had rightly told me, Sir, that you were a very clever and honest man.

The sex workers I spoke with rightly call it “vile,” “gross,” “terrifying,” and “exploitative.”

I don't want to trouble him, but I was bound he shouldn't keep from me what was rightly my due.

Bonauto, now an official MacArthur genius, is rightly known as the Thurgood Marshall of the marriage movement.

Word Value for rightly
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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