rightfully
Example Sentences
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For a brief few minutes at the ceremony, it was incorrectly named best picture before “Moonlight” rightfully took the prize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
This leaves disgruntled adult children weighing what to do to reclaim money they feel is rightfully theirs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Lieutenant Samuel Frost, an Officer Commanding, said Freeman would be "sorely missed, rightfully commemorated, and never forgotten".
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Watching a capybara come when called is a highly Instagrammable moment, my in-person proof that capybaras have rightfully earned their status as a 2020s internet meme.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
I blamed Vonetta and not Fern, since I didn’t want the world to learn we didn’t rightfully know our mother.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
