1 for a good reason
SYNJUSTIFIABLY:
The school was rightly proud of the excellent exam results. * He was proud of his beautiful house, and rightly so. * Quite rightly, the environment is of great concern.
2 in a correct or accurate way:
Rightly or wrongly, many older people are afraid of violence in the streets. * As she rightly pointed out the illness can affect adults as well as children. * (spoken) I can't rightly say what happened. * (spoken) I don't rightly know where he's gone. * (spoken) If I remember rightly, there's a train at six o'clock. -< RIGHT
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rightly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rightly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rightly is tagged as adverb.
Does rightly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — rightly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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