Right or rightly?
We use both right and rightly as adverbs, but they are used in different ways and with different meanings. …

rightly | American Dictionary

rightly
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈrɑɪt·li/

rightlyadverb[not gradable] (WISELY)

with good judgment:
You did have the opportunity, and rightly or wrongly, you didn’t follow up on it.

rightlyadverb[not gradable] (MORALLY)

in a way that is considered to be morally good or acceptable or fair:
She rightly protested against the idea that women can’t succeed in politics.

rightlyadverb[not gradable] (WITHOUT DOUBT)

with freedom from doubt:
I think these people don’t rightly know what they’re doing.

Examples of rightly

rightly
He rightly points out that it lacks both verse and doxology, but his two other reasons for thus isolating this setting are less convincing.
The authors rightly warn against taking this fact as an excuse for reducing public welfare activities.
Because it holds itself to this standard, it can rightly be treated as a defect in law if it fails to be authoritative.
He has not yet rightly formed his opinion ; he has not yet received full instructions.
Britons rightly attached importance to this theme, which had already been reintroduced elsewhere in scholarship on the long eighteenth century.
They respond to questions on this by quite rightly dismissing the topic as simply ruled out by known regulations.
Such a view is rightly criticized as empty unless it supplies content to those prior duties.
As such, it is rightly regarded as a cultural milestone.
A sense, rightly or not, that the promises of the postwar world were unfulfilled.
He rightly argues that to view sectarianism as failed or cor rupted nationalism is to par take in nationalism's own discourse on sectarianism.
Because it was not treated appropriately, it ' rightly provoked the anger' of authorities and people in developing countries.
How, then, can we rightly say that those officials are adhering to that criterion?
What loss do they suffer, in terms of their genuine interests, when the defendant is rightly acquitted or spared undeserved punishment?
To be just in this general sense is simply to act rightly or treat others morally.
The author rightly draws our attention to another vital aspect of indigenous identity - the weight of the local element.
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