HOW TO PRONOUNCE
rightly
/ˈɹaɪtli/
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What does rightly mean?
adverb
- In a right manner; correctly, justifiably.
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IPA pronunciation
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I didn’t rightly know what to say, because I didn’t know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down.
The next day Coatesville voted for prohibition, and, rightly or wrongly, I have always believed that I helped to win that victory.
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Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
From this I rightly conjectured that no improvement had taken place since my last visit in the state of Mrs. Gummidge’s spirits.
It is said simply and rightly, by the Styrian poet, “One individual is a man, a few are people, many are cattle.”