Sentence examples for rightly from high-quality English sources.

• “Don't rightly know, don't you!

• People can be worried and rightly so.

• "Simplicity is a common theme throughout the entire book, and rightly so," the HackerRank cofounder said.

• Here too we rightly expect each other to have a general policy, one that takes these sorts of actions to be wrong in normal circumstances.

• Until such evidence has been collected, the WHO has rightly discouraged countries from delaying boosters except in the most desperate circumstances.

• In its successful defense of a Covid-induced lawsuit, Fox rightly argued that first amendment free speech protections can also shield misinformation.

• Serial killer Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, is rightly regarded as one of the most iconic and influential horror film characters of all time.

• The rightly guided caliphs largely established the administrative and judicial organization of the Muslim community and directed the conquest of new lands.

Use rightly in a sentence.

• He rightly points out how Mid Staffs is still discussed in the health services, and that quality of service is still seen as important as financial concerns.

• Many South Koreans feel, quite rightly, that Japan has not sufficiently acknowledged, let alone properly atoned for, all the horrors of its colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.

• "Things have certainly changed since four to five years back where Google was very technology-focused and rightly so because they're great at technology," Thusoo told Business Insider.

• Coughlin, for his part, said the next day that when the team wins, the credit rightly belongs to the players, and when the team loses, the blame rightly belongs to him.

• The great triumph of this work comes from its author’s determination to rail against what he rightly diagnoses as this institutionally endorsed disremembering of black and marginalised experience.

• Then, of course, there’s Brexit: in the UK, it seems – maybe rightly – to be the only lens through which the public takes notice of whatever happens in the EU; in the EU, Brexit has – maybe rightly – resulted in a British loss of cachet.

• Michael Mansfield QC, who represented the group in court, said: “The impact on the economic, social and mental wellbeing of these women, who rightly enjoyed a perfectly legitimate expectation of satisfactory provision in retirement, has been devastating.

• Robert Bresson, (born September 25, 1901, Bromont-Lamonthe, Puy-de Dôme, France—died December 18, 1999, Droué-sur-Drouette), French writer-director who, despite his limited output, has been rightly celebrated as one of the cinema’s few authentic geniuses.

rightly sentence examples

• "The character of Ming of course comes from the Flash Gordon comic strips from the 1930s and the serials, and let's just say attitudes towards the acceptability of discriminatory racial stereotypes have moved on considerably since then, and rightly so of course."

• His mishandling of a Senate investigation into Anita Hill’s blatantly truthful allegations about the sexual misdemeanours of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas back in 1991, and his failure to apologise properly now, will rightly plague him through the campaign.

• The spokesperson added: “During the campaign, universities rightly highlighted the important role the EU plays in funding higher education and skills minister, Nick Boles, expressed concerns the apprenticeship levy may have to be postponed in the event of a leave vote.

• SIR—Although you rightly hail Mozambique as an “IMF success story” on the macroeconomic front, your article (“Bending the rules”, June 28th) distorts the facts regarding the IMF's policy advice on aid-financed government spending, civil-service wages and directed credit.