Usually means: Justly, according to law or fairness.
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  1. rightfully: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rightfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rightfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rightfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Rightfully, rightfully: Wordnik
  6. rightfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rightfully: Wiktionary
  8. Rightfully, rightfully: Dictionary.com
  9. rightfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Rightfully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rightfully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. rightfully: Rhymezone
  13. Rightfully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. rightfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. rightfully: Free Dictionary
  16. rightfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rightfully: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rightfully: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rightfully)

adverb:  In accordance with what is right or just; fairly.
adverb:  Rightly, correctly.

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