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rightly

— adverb with honesty he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time

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properly correctly justly well accurately truly right aright nicely worthily duly virtuously splendidly righteously naturally justifiedly fairly exactly erectly deservedly with a genuine cause uprightly truthfully true thus thoroughly surely so satisfactorily rightfully religiously relevantly purely profitably precisely nobly no doubt moderately in truthfulness in truth in righteousness honestly gently evenly directly completely certainly carefully beneficially appropriately

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Simple sentences

They are cousins, if I remember rightly.

He was rightly punished.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy rightly believed that the Kingdom of God is within us.

Movie subtitles

Where she is finally eaten by locusts, and rightly.

Yet I must tell you sincerely that you have made me most happy and that you have decided rightly.

And, rightly.

No, sir, I don't rightly know.

I don't rightly know, sir.

Don't rightly know, sir.

I don't rightly recomember how she was dressed. but she was wrapped in a mighty pretty shawl.

They rightly hate him. He steals, hates us all, is a burden. But Mother St John likes him.

If I remember rightly, tears are water with a trace of sodium chloride.

Figure it to tell time rightly?

I've seen the bad in them and would condemn that, and rightly too, but what do we do when we find something that is good in them?

Well, I don't rightly know.

If I remember rightly, Mr Mazzini, some years ago I received a communication from your mother.

The empress speaks rightly, Caesar. The people hate these Christians.

You'd think it unreasonable, and rightly so.

They rightly hate him.

I couldn't rightly figure out what.

The way I look at it, this killing doesn't rightly concern Brentwood at all.

He fears that you never understood him, never judged him rightly.

It rightly belongs to. Hey, Lin!

The empress speaks rightly, Caesar.

And rightly so.

No, I can't rightly say any place is my home.

And rightly.

Well, I don't rightly know where it is, but it's bloody hot when you get there.

I don't rightly know. excepting' I always have so much to remember.

I don't rightly know. excepting' that the Senator went riding.

Maybe I didn't rightly understand you.

I don't rightly know much about Sam Pierce, O Lord. but from what I hear. he'll be needing no introduction to you.

Well, i don't rightly know as i'm a judge.

Rightly speakir, it's no concern of yourn, but I think it only fiit and proper you be a party to it.

Lady comes rightly to begin to play.

I'm not rightly acquainted with.

Well, now, I just don't rightly know. I never climbed one.

News and current affairs

Many citizens believe, rightly, that their mass media are failing to investigate and document abuses.

Likewise, in an age when corporate lobbyists have a free hand in shaping - if not drafting - public policies, many people believe, again rightly, that their elected officials no longer represent them.

Afghanistan can thus rightly be seen as the first victim of the administration's misguided strategy.

But in most cases, when people are confronted with matters of great importance, they are more likely to use the so-called central route to information processing, and rightly so.

The IMF rightly points out that these claims are nonsense.

But matters have gotten worse: border tensions between the US and Mexico have grown, the proposed wall has rightly provoked indignation, more unauthorized immigrants than ever are entering the US, and the FTAA has collapsed.

They fear, rightly, that sooner or later everyone else will begin demanding that the budget deficit be closed in part by raising taxes on the rich.

When he rightly opposed America's war against Iraq, the pride of standing up to the world's only superpower was palpable.

Rightly so: economists have plenty to answer for.

They rightly contest the degradation of their ancestors, but also idealize their rural, communitarian nature.

Bush supporters rightly ask: is Bush really to blame for this?

Or will they finally realize that a future of independence, sovereignty, and dignity is open to them - but only if they grant the Israelis what they rightly claim for themselves?

The IMF's head, the Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, rightly insists that China, the US, Japan, Europe, and the major oil exporters (now the world's biggest source of new capital) all take concrete steps towards alleviating the risk of a crisis.

And many central bankers have been rightly lauded for their role in preventing a global meltdown during the financial crisis.

Many Germans today rightly feel that any system of fiscal transfers will morph into a permanent feeding tube, much the way that northern Italy has been propping up southern Italy for the last century.

The UN acknowledges the problem but is (rightly) unwilling to risk sending forestry experts into a tribal region where American and allied troops venture only in armored convoys.

Nevertheless, most people living in Africa's cities have access to land in the countryside, which is why Liberia's government rightly highlights the potential for farm expansion.

In Europe, America, and Japan, media ownership is increasingly concentrated, which rightly worries citizens in these countries, particularly when media owners move from forming opinion to forming governments.

Obama rightly recognizes that it is an important tool of foreign policy, to be employed when it promises results that are more favorable than the alternatives.

But that rule is rightly recognized as being potentially dysfunctional.

Obama rightly emphasized that competitiveness in the world today depends on an educated workforce and modern infrastructure.

WASHINGTON, DC - Coal is emerging as a major topic of conversation at the United Nations climate-change negotiations currently taking place in Warsaw - and rightly so.

Germany might rightly argue that it has followed a relatively laissez-faire attitude towards trade, and that it should not be punished, despite its chronic surpluses.

And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.

Both the Palestinians and Israel can easily and rightly be blamed for the failure of the Oslo process.

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