rightlyadverb
uk/ˈraɪt.li/us/ˈraɪt.li/rightly adverb (MORALLY ACCEPTABLE)
B2 behaving in a way that is suitable and acceptable:
They quite rightly complained to the manager.
rightly or wrongly
used to mean that something may or may not be morally correct, but it is a fact:
Rightly or wrongly, she has been given the post of managing director.
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- He's very concerned about the situation and rightly so.
- She quite rightly felt very cross about how she'd been treated.
- They quite rightly said they wouldn't accept the proposal.
- She quite rightly said she wasn't going to do the extra work.
- James, quite rightly, asked her to moderate her language.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Virtue and moral good
- altruism
- angel
- angelic
- be as pure as the driven snow idiom
- be on the side of the angels idiom
- clean
- goodness
- lily-white
- moral
- nobility
- noble
- principled
- pure
- spinach
- straight
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions idiom
- the straight and narrow idiom
- unselfish
- upliftment
- virtue
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Suitable and acceptable
rightly adverb (CORRECTLY)
B2 in a correct or exact way:
Many people rightly believe that the war is a sham.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- flat
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
- verbatim
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