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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

rightly

/ˈɹaɪtli/

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What does rightly mean?

adverb

  1. In a right manner; correctly, justifiably.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɹaɪtli/

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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.
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry FinnProject Gutenberg ebook #76
The next day Coatesville voted for prohibition, and, rightly or wrongly, I have always believed that I helped to win that victory.
Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver JordanThe Story of a PioneerProject Gutenberg ebook #354
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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?
John MiltonAreopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #608
From this I rightly conjectured that no improvement had taken place since my last visit in the state of Mrs. Gummidge’s spirits.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
It is said simply and rightly, by the Styrian poet, “One individual is a man, a few are people, many are cattle.”
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320