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BLITZER: Are we focusing too much attention, do you think, some criticism, I think unrightly, that maybe the media is paying too much attention to the first lady and what she's up to, but there is -- you have to admit, enormous amount of high interest.

CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2009 2009

That movie seems to have gotten a bad shake and unrightly so from all of the positive festival buzz.

Frightfest Days 2 & 3: The Horseman, Landis, Trick ‘R Treat, Giallo, Hierro and More | /Film 2009

Words unrightly spoken are not a “language problem” and foul words are not a part of a “language debate”.

The Holy Spirit only calls a select few to be jackasses. - 22 Words 2008

Now that Imus -- who I barely knew anything about until recently -- has (rightly or unrightly -- it really doesn't matter to me) lost his job and our resident black male leaders have demonstrated their power to police, I hope we can turn our attention to the real conversation -- the root causes of Imus 'racism.

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Maddened by the pangs of separation from my mistress, and not unrightly considering that Mrs. Esmond was the prime cause of the greatest grief and misery which had ever befallen me in the world,

The Virginians 2006

I think that she was feeling a little uncomfortable about people buying her drinks/dinner (not unrightly so; I dropped about $100 that night) and was trying to make up for it.

drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2006

And the same principle holds is regards power — for this also may be rightly or unrightly placed — it depends either upon the merit of the dispensers of place or upon the man himself who has effected his purpose by the organization of supporters or in many other possible ways.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Casor is a freeman the court seriously considering & maturely weighing ye premises doe fynd that ye sd Mr. Robert Parker most unrightly keepeth ye sd Negro John Casor from his r [igh] t mayster Anth. Johnson as it appeareth by ye Deposition of Capt.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

Whoso killeth himself -- that is, inflicteth penance on his body -- except in considering the Passion of Christ, he killeth himself unrightly, for thereby he cannot come into the kingdom of heaven.

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

For like loveth its like; therefore he who wisheth that he should never be loved unrightly, should take heed that he always die to his nature, in him and in other men, for what then is loved in him is God.

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910