Rightfully is an English word with synonyms like truly. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Rightfully meaning
- In accordance with what is right or just.
- Rightly, correctly.
Synonyms of Rightfully
Using Rightfully
- The main meaning on this page is: In accordance with what is right or just. | Rightly, correctly.
- Useful related words include: truly.
- In the example corpus, rightfully often appears in combinations such as: rightfully so, and rightfully, is rightfully.
Context around Rightfully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rightfully
- In this selection, "rightfully" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, americans, kids, performances, outraged, praised and exhausted stand out and add context to how "rightfully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all trump rightfully praised himself and amanda seyfried rightfully became a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rightfully" sits close to words such as amos, anchors and arid, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rightfully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Big Little Lies won many awards and rightfully so! (9 words)
Hiroshima is very proud of their city, and rightfully so. (10 words)
And he is rightfully counted among the best players in the entire world because of that. (16 words)
Don’t forget to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Insomniac, the events company that puts on EDC, at the art cart shaped like a massive birthday cake, and your parents would rightfully disown you if you didn’t take a ride on the Wacky Worm roller-coaster. (47 words)
Karen Smith isn't the brightest person, and she's not the best with words, but she is one of the funniest characters in and Amanda Seyfried rightfully became a star after the movie. (34 words)
Dick Gaughan: 'I tend to side with people like the Diggers, those English revolutionaries who fought without weapons for a fair share of the land that rightfully was the property of everyone'. (32 words)
Big Little Lies won many awards and rightfully so! (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
Now Americans rightfully outraged by Hamas’ violence are pitted against the college kids rightfully outraged by Israel’s unacceptable response.
After all, Trump rightfully praised himself for giving Ukraine much tougher weapons to defend itself than Obama ever did, and that was before Putin waged war.
After facing a pair of top-20 opponents in a span of 48 hours, Fuchs said the team was rightfully exhausted.
Although the City Council is, and rightfully so, non-partisan, I like to think of myself as a Progressive Independent in my philosophy.
And he is rightfully counted among the best players in the entire world because of that.
And when Crawford had the unified champ on the ropes and on the end of a vicious attack, Dock had rightfully seen enough.
Bad Bunny has rightfully ascended to the throne as the world’s most crush-worthy human, the media last week about having weirdly long fingers.
Big Little Lies won many awards and rightfully so!
Brilliantly written and featuring award-worthy performances, rightfully found itself in cult classic territory and has been gaining popularity ever since.
By sharing success stories and highlighting the avenues for recovery, Guardian Shield encourages victims to step forward, seek justice, and take back what is rightfully theirs.
Davis said Colorado rightfully used Norvell’s words as bulletin board fodder, “but I didn’t think for a second” Norvell meant to insult Sanders.
Dick Gaughan: 'I tend to side with people like the Diggers, those English revolutionaries who fought without weapons for a fair share of the land that rightfully was the property of everyone'.
Don’t forget to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Insomniac, the events company that puts on EDC, at the art cart shaped like a massive birthday cake, and your parents would rightfully disown you if you didn’t take a ride on the Wacky Worm roller-coaster.
Hiroshima is very proud of their city, and rightfully so.
I derive almost half my revenue from developed markets and hence can rightfully be called an Indian MNC.
I got a friendship bracelet from the person whose new Pride anthem is rightfully “Vigilante Shit,” an example of the surprising sense of community I felt at this show.
Karen Smith isn't the brightest person, and she's not the best with words, but she is one of the funniest characters in and Amanda Seyfried rightfully became a star after the movie.
Kutigi-led panel then declared Akpulonu of the as the rightfully elected winner and slammed a fine of N200,000 on the Labour Party candidate to be paid to the PDP winner.
Martin's footy resume since his breakout year in 2016 is something to behold, and exactly why he is rightfully the highest paid player in the game.
One of the charges stated that De-Stefani dishonestly converted the property at No.14A/B Warring Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, for her use, which rightfully belonged to Waterside Properties Limited.
Common combinations with rightfully
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rightfully so 39×
- and rightfully 33×
- is rightfully 20×
- are rightfully 9×
- was rightfully 8×
- has rightfully 8×
- rightfully earned 5×
- have rightfully 5×
- to rightfully 5×
- that rightfully 4×