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Example sentences for "rightfully"

Lexicographically close words:
righter; righters; rightest; rightful; rightfull; rightfulness; righting; rightlie; rightly; rightness
  1. She may rightfully lay down her demonstrating chalk, and say, "That is an axiom.

  2. Only those who are faithful in a few things will rightfully be made rulers over many.

  3. If her sister's child was dead, it rightfully belonged to her.

  4. Even Mr. Adams, the mate, will receive double the amount of money which rightfully belongs to him!

  5. He said: "If the courts say that this land rightfully belongs to you, I shall pay you for your land or vacate.

  6. I can believe that this power may be exercised on board American ships in British waters--or at least, that it is a more plausible right in such situations; but I cannot think it can be rightfully exercised anywhere else.

  7. It is a part,' he says, 'of the notion of duty in every one of its forms that a person may rightfully be compelled to fulfil it.

  8. But of that which is not due, how can payment be rightfully insisted upon?

  9. It is not, then, by being rightfully liable to punishment that unjust differs from ungenerous conduct.

  10. Right, it is clear, can never be rightfully resisted.

  11. But consider, mam: we live in a progressive age and having made a great contribution to Science you can hardly escape the fame rightfully yours.

  12. She just wasnt smart enough to make the Metamorphizer marketable and she was cheating me of the handsome return which should be rightfully mine.

  13. Then there are in the article passages of cloudy and dreamy metaphysics, and also passages where his thoughts seem to measure and attune themselves into spontaneous verse, as they rightfully may, since there is real poetry in them.

  14. Not one word can be found in those regulations speaking of the duties of the lieutenant-general commanding the army, or defining a single act of authority rightfully devolving on him.

  15. He cannot be rightfully compelled to do or forbear because it will make him happier, because in the opinion of others to do so would be wise or even right.

  16. She becomes morbidly interested in his doings and asks imprudent questions which the man rightfully construes as evidences of desire for the life he describes.

  17. I have never rightfully understood until this evening what has really happened to me.

  18. She epitomizes the latter-day anti-social being and is rightfully considered by psychologists as a flaming sign of the times, a brief for the social democrats.

  19. Nor was this all, for all future expeditions into the new region must go across the territory which was rightfully his, and they could only succeed by the assistance and resources which would be drawn from his country.

  20. But nevertheless he wished at the same time to enjoin him as a condition to abstain from attacking any country which rightfully belonged to the Archduchess Isabella, or to the crown of Spain.

  21. The person who uses the same name, rightfully or wrongfully, writes very different and very inferior books.

  22. On the Paulus Hook route to Philadelphia in 1772 the proprietor announced a vehicle "in imitation of a coach"--and perhaps that is all that any of these carriages could be rightfully called.

  23. Of the Conestoga wagon as a perfect vehicle of transportation and as an important historical factor we can honorably and rightfully be proud.

  24. What people rightfully object to is, not competition, but unregulated or unfair competition.

  25. Certain bacteria exist, we now know, plentifully in nature, such as the malaria germ, to which rightfully has been ascribed the physical degeneracy of people living in certain sections of the earth.

  26. Industry, as we have seen, was primitively an adjunct of the family life, and all modern industry, if rightfully developed, should be but an adjunct to the family life.

  27. To us, the remnant of the host of Greece, Comes weal beyond all counterpoise of woe; Thus boast we rightfully to yonder sun, Like him far-fleeted over sea and land.

  28. Demand is a determined and often an arrogant word; one may rightfully demand what is his own or his due, when it is withheld or denied; or he may wrongfully demand that to which he has no claim but power.

  29. The distinctive idea of assume is to take by one's own independent volition, whether well or ill, rightfully or wrongfully.

  30. Does assume apply to that which is rightfully or wrongfully taken?

  31. To acquit of sin or crime is to free from the accusation of it, pronouncing one guiltless; the innocent are rightfully acquitted; the guilty may be mercifully absolved.

  32. She was a woman of immense means, and an oppressive consciousness of this spoke in every movement of her heavy frame, which always seemed to take up three times as much space as rightfully belonged to any human creature.

  33. But the solitude of the place, so much more oppressive than the solitude of the road I had left, struck cold to my heart, and I missed the cheer rightfully belonging to such attractive surroundings.

  34. Now go about your task, and place your sepulchre in the best position in the cemetery, where it ought rightfully to be.

  35. I have proved my point entirely without a fight, and now I may rightfully go to accept my heritage in peace; for I shall render no accounting for it to my sister as long as I live, and she will lead a wretched and miserable existence.

  36. Her heart was so devoted to Cliges that she feigned death for his sake; and he had such confidence in me that he explained it all to me and established her in my house, which rightfully belongs to him.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rightfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dispassionately; duly; equally; evenly; fair; fairly; justly; properly; right; rightfully; rightly; truly