RIGHTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rightly mean? 

• RIGHTLY (adverb)
  The adverb RIGHTLY has 1 sense:

1. with honesty

  Familiarity information: RIGHTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With honesty

Synonyms:

justifiedly; justly; rightly

Context example:

he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time

Pertainym:

right (in conformance with justice or law or morality)

 Context examples 

I have no fears for you, yet I am anxious that you should take this trouble rightly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“And where am I?” I asked Johnson, whom I took, and rightly, to be one of the sailors.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

'Fifteen Men' were his only song, mates; and I tell you true, I never rightly liked to hear it since.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This month you will defer to your partner to take the lead, and rightly so, for your partner will be the one to make things happen.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Fanny is the only one who has judged rightly throughout; who has been consistent.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And rightly too, mother, since you cared for him in his youth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I happened rightly to conjecture, that these were sent for orders to some person in authority upon this occasion.

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

If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, that you two gent'lmen—gent'lmen growed—should come to this here roof tonight, of all nights in my life, said Mr. Peggotty, is such a thing as never happened afore, I do rightly believe!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)