Example sentences for: rightly

How can you use “rightly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Reno (released after Godwin and Abelson's letter was written) rejected such a distinction--whether rightly or wrongly--in the closely related context of a vagueness analysis.

  • And since health care is rightly regarded as a public good, a country as wealthy as ours will inevitably provide a host of subsidies, both public and private, to encourage us to swallow a good deal more medicine than we would if we paid for it out of our own pockets.

  • Ev psych insists, rightly, that we not ignore our similarities to the higher- and lower-order creatures, but it's weak on subjectivity, self-awareness, self-consciousness, whatever you want to call it--on how we explain our tangled mass of hormonal impulses to ourselves.

  • As for Hillary, well, I'm not a big fan of those lefty ideological positions that Rangel, Serrano, et al hoped she would champion, but in the end I would have respected her more for that than for the unprincipled hedging that you so rightly point out is apparently going to be her hallmark.

  • But because it is put forward by a fatuous Charleston, S.C., college professor, we hear it for what Horwitz rightly calls it: "a clever glide around race and slavery, rather like the slick-tongued defense of the Southern 'way of life' made by antebellum orators, South Carolinians in particular."


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