rightly
Example Sentences
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We rightly fear nuclear proliferation, and yet “amazing grace and good fortune,” and admirable postwar statecraft, “actually bent the arc of history.”
A particularly heavy barrage floored Yarde and the champion was rightly penalised for the late punch.
From BBC
Microplastics are the current bete noire and rightly so, but we’re still in the dark about the causal calamity of a past era’s chemical polluting.
From Los Angeles Times
"And I have no doubt that I will rightly be judged against that at the next election."
From BBC
Mr. Loomis has sympathy for his subject, rightly observing that Jews of the era faced tremendous social and professional obstacles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
