unrightfullyadv.

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cv. 6 We han wroȝt vnryȝtfullich [L. inique fecimus].

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 223 (MED) Ioye for þe worþily wonynge..is ordeynt to wel lyuynge, Serwe also to haue þerbi ffor vre liuynge vnrihtfuli.

1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §66. m. 2 Whan they been often tymes unrightfully empeched.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 374 ‘That is unryghtfully asked’, seyde the kynge Melyodas.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. iii. sig. a.viii A kynge..In batayle slayne vnryghtfully, now a martyr gloryous.

?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xxxvi. 99 The wordes of hys mouth: be vnrightfully wayed.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity Preface 187 What tends so much to peace and soberness can not unrightfully seem to challenge the reward of a due Approbation from men.

1793 T. Jefferson Let. 7 Sept. in Papers (1997) XXV. 57 Between restraining it ourselves, and permitting her enemies to restrain it unrightfully, is no difference.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life iv. 53 A great humbug and unrightfully in the guide-books.

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. II. viii. 199 For he, to come to them, from shore, would take, Unrightfully, no man's bark.

1954 W. R. Trask in E. Sterba & R. Sterba Beethoven & his Nephew xii. 257 He suspected that the housekeeper was an accomplice of the owners of the house and would share in the profits from the sale of the unrightfully confiscated bell-pull.

2005 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Live) 21 t The Belgium-raised artist performed pygmy chants on the multi-Grammy winner's unrightfully dismissed Worldwide Underground from 2003.