rightfully
Example Sentences
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For a brief few minutes at the ceremony, it was incorrectly named best picture before “Moonlight” rightfully took the prize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
This leaves disgruntled adult children weighing what to do to reclaim money they feel is rightfully theirs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Lieutenant Samuel Frost, an Officer Commanding, said Freeman would be "sorely missed, rightfully commemorated, and never forgotten".
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Housing is an area of particular focus for Mr. Lindsey, since he rightfully notes that it is beset by bad regulations and high prices that inhibit family formation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
They believed, as Angelina once wrote, “Man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
