Synonyms for rightfully
right·ful·ly

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1. rightfully, trulyadverb

   by right

   "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"

   Synonyms:
   sincerely, truly, really, in truth, unfeignedly, genuinely

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1. List of paraphrases for "rightfully":

   rightly, legitimately, justifiably, deservedly, correctly, lawfully

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1. Stan Bowman:

   When you’re in the moment, though, and you’re him, you do things for short-term reasons and you try to win, he’s rightfully so getting a lot of credit because he’s walking the tightrope that I walked for three or four years. ... It’s really hard.

2. Anthony Bourdain -LRB- left -RRB-:

   It’s something I ’m very aware of when I hear Anthony Bourdain -LRB- left -RRB- talking about it — it makes me very uneasy, these are not my stories, so I feel that every time I ’m talking about it I ’m taking up space that should be rightfully taken by a woman. It’s a fine line for me. I do n’t particularly enjoy talking about it. But if you ask me, I ’ll tell ya.

3. Michael Bryant:

   It’s rightfully so that we focus on the horrors perpetrated against the Jews, the Poles and the Soviets by the Nazis during the war, but we frequently lose sight of the first victims of the Nazis' systematic murders.

4. Lloyd Doggett:

   I think the speaker is rightfully cautious, she has to work with Congressional Black Caucus, she also did not have the benefit of knowing in advance what total obstruction Donald Trump would insist upon. ... So now that she has that information I hope she'll be joining us in encouraging the prompt institution of impeachment proceedings.

5. Jim Risch:

   When Idahoans hear someone who conspired with tree spikers is the administration’s pick to lead the largest land management agency in America, they are rightfully appalled. Conspiring with tree spikers is not a mistake, a mistake is opening the sock drawer in the morning and pulling out two socks that don’t match. When you knowingly, willfully, intentionally, with malice and forethought, attempt to take someone else’s life – that’s not a mistake.