JUSTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does justly mean? 

• JUSTLY (adverb)
  The adverb JUSTLY has 2 senses:

1. with honesty

2. in accordance with moral or social standards

  Familiarity information: JUSTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUSTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With honesty

Synonyms:

justifiedly; justly; rightly

Context example:

he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time

Antonym:

unjustly (in an unjust manner)

Pertainym:

just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In accordance with moral or social standards

Synonyms:

justly; right

Context example:

do right by him

Pertainym:

just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)

 Context examples 

I think nobody can justly accuse me of sparing myself upon any occasion, but really I cannot do everything at once.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Justly thought; rightly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this moment, I am paving hell with energy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Emma could not but picture it all, and feel how justly they might resent, how naturally Harriet must suffer.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“I think, Watson, that I shall resume that course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly condemned,” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One's fortune, as your mother justly says, is NOT one's own.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I can remember some expressions which might justly make you hate me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With a curiosity so justly awakened, and feelings in every way so agitated, repose must be absolutely impossible.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have carefully avoided every fault with which common writers of travels are often too justly charged.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was determined, at least, not to mar it by an imprudent marriage; and I know it was his belief (whether justly or not, of course I cannot decide), that your father and sister, in their civilities and invitations, were designing a match between the heir and the young lady, and it was impossible that such a match should have answered his ideas of wealth and independence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In her first effort at being very, very good, she decided to make her will, as Aunt March had done, so that if she did fall ill and die, her possessions might be justly and generously divided.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)