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[ adverb ] with honesty
Synonyms Examples "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)There have been , indeed , many important and valuable gains from the development of our present scientific view of the world for which we may be rightly grateful . Yet are not we of the mid twentieth century , who rightly do not believe there is any such `` thing '' as the devil , just as bad off as they - only in a different way ? (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Folklore is his hobby , and he , all_too rightly , wishes it to remain as such . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)In the vases this spirit may perhaps at_times bore or repel one in its internal self-satisfaction , but the best of the Geometric pins have rightly been considered among the most beautiful ever made in the Greek world . |
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