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Meanings of rightfully in English

By right.

        Usage of rightfully in English
        1
        Ireland today is a place we can all be rightfully proud of.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Each generation of Americans rightfully demands a new engagement with the past.
        A. lincoln: a biography
        3
        The statement I made is unacceptable and rightfully rebuked by all concerned.
        The South African
        4
        The Galápagos Islands are rightfully receiving a large slice of this aid.
        BBC
        5
        You'll rightfully receive the justice you are due just as January dawns.
        The Guardian
        6
        As a writer, she is rightfully known as the queen of crime.
        BBC
        7
        But He held rightfully the courts of heaven and His holy throne.
        Codex Junius 11
        8
        The mere fact that we need a thing makes it rightfully ours.
        Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World
        9
        They did not say how it should be done, and rightfully so.
        The Guardian
        10
        Jones, though, has never received the gold medal that is rightfully his.
        The Guardian
        11
        They fear to take up the shame that rightfully belongs to them.
        The Scarlet Letter
        12
        We are merely helping the boy to retain what is rightfully his.
        Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune
        13
        Ferrari have always been associated with the V12 engine, and rightfully so.
        Wired
        14
        I am the laughingstock of the entire electronic community, and rightfully so.
        Naked pictures of famous people
        15
        Irish Davis Cup player Conor Niland can rightfully claim to be both.
        The Irish Times
        16
        His productions are major fiascos, rightfully skewered by a ninth-grade drama critic.
        Reuters
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        United States of America
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