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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:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

right (in conformance with justice or law or morality)

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 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)