Rightly in a sentence as an adverb

People are rightly concerned about radioactive waste being left in Malaysia.

This was a chance to bring clarity and order to an otherwise muddled area of law and this panel, rightly or not, chose to go back to the muddle.

In that vein, when somebody tells Linus:"You might have fun raging on the internet, but I think your goals would be better served if..."He rightly responds:"Umm. I think I've been able to reach my goals on the internet better than most people.

If instead you rightly view them as the biggest player on the field that bullies everyone else and picks favourites then there is no contradiction.

Is an army medic not rightly discriminated against by the other side if the medic's side loses the war?Discrimination is bad when it's about 'who someone is', never when it's about 'what someone does'.

If I am a broker who depends for his livelihood in serving a customer base that it took years to develop, I would be rightly upset if someone came in and simply handed all my customer information over to my competitors.

*“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” -Bertrand Russell

Rightly definitions

adverb

with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time"

See also: justly justifiedly