Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unjustly; unrighteously.
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Examples
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That's a tag line that's probably followed the latter indie rock band wherever they go, unrightfully so.
Jon Chattman: Entering The Orchard with Ra Ra Riot Jon Chattman 2010
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That's a tag line that's probably followed the latter indie rock band wherever they go, unrightfully so.
Jon Chattman: Entering The Orchard with Ra Ra Riot Jon Chattman 2010
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That's a tag line that's probably followed the latter indie rock band wherever they go, unrightfully so.
Jon Chattman: Entering The Orchard with Ra Ra Riot Jon Chattman 2010
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And people unrightfully so say I'm absolutist when it comes to my opinions…..
Quentin Tarantino Adds Avatar to His Top 11 Films of 2009 « FirstShowing.net 2010
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It is also treated by Danc very laconically, unrightfully so.
Free Flash Fallacy 2009
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And - and the reason it did is because it was unrightfully by me, you know, connected to - to that celebrity.
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Certainly 1 million Koreans, many of whom were alive in 1894, but all of whom had experienced 24 years of varied Japanese presence, intervention, and outright rule, ajudged that they had been invaded and unrightfully deprived of self-rule.
Japanese teacher disciplined for opposing nationalist textbooks 2005
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That is unrightfully asked, said King Meliodas, for thou ought of right to hate her, for she would have slain thee with that poison an she might have had her will; and for thy sake most is my cause that she should die.
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Its government then claimed, unrightfully, that they were not targeted.
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Tell yourselves, rather, of scot well-nigh ruinous to pay, of wives and maidens dishonored, of lands unrightfully seized and folk driven from their homes, of men hewn down or burned in their surrounded dwellings merely because they dared speak against his deeds.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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