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JUSTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In accordance with moral or social standards
Example:
do right by him
Synonyms:
justly; right
Classified under:
Pertainym:
just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
With honesty
Example:
he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time
Synonyms:
justifiedly; justly; rightly
Classified under:
Antonym:
unjustly (in an unjust manner)
Pertainym:
just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)
Context examples:
Dear, if your heart is hard towards me—justly hard, I know—but, listen, if it is hard, dear, ask him I have wronged the most—him whose wife I was to have been—before you quite decide against my poor poor prayer!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Incidentally, I may tell you that we are doing the reverse of what you very justly blame, and that we are endeavouring to prevent anything like public exposure of private matters which must necessarily follow when once the case is fairly in the hands of the official police.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines of the poet—'Heaven's last best gift.'
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She would not be ashamed of the appearance of the penitence, so justly and truly hers.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He allowed your crimes to be great, but that still there was room for mercy, the most commendable virtue in a prince, and for which his majesty was so justly celebrated.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I could hardly believe my senses, when I heard it; and no displeasure, no resentment that you can feel at this moment, however justly great, can be more than I myself—but I must not talk of what I felt.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but, as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Such was the sentence which, when misunderstood, so justly offended the delicate feelings of Mrs. Jennings; but after this narration of what really passed between Colonel Brandon and Elinor, while they stood at the window, the gratitude expressed by the latter on their parting, may perhaps appear in general, not less reasonably excited, nor less properly worded than if it had arisen from an offer of marriage.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Had Lydia's marriage been concluded on the most honourable terms, it was not to be supposed that Mr. Darcy would connect himself with a family where, to every other objection, would now be added an alliance and relationship of the nearest kind with a man whom he so justly scorned.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
