Synonym: properly. Similar words: copy rights, rights, copyright, human rights, civil rights, set to rights, bill of rights, states' rights. Meaning: adv. with reason or justice.
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1. You realize that by rights you should not come into this room, don't you? This is only for people who work here.
2. By rights half the money should be mine.
3. By rights, the house should be mine now.
4. By rights, it should be my turn next.
5. By rights, half the reward should be mine.
6. By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
7. She did work which by rights should be done by someone else.
8. By rights the property should have gone to him rather than to his sister.
9. But, by rights, the smaller one shouldn't exist.
10. It was by rights his, he said.
11. He was a man whom, by rights, she ought not even to like.
12. It winds down into winter, and yet by rights it should be barely midsummer.
13. By rights, she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now.
14. By rights, the Hammond B-3 ought to have been rendered extinct by now[sentencedict.com], the victim of smaller and cheaper synthesizers.
15. He's worked the land all his life, so by rights it's his.
16. Of course by rights this should fall to Edward, but for reasons best known to himself it seems he's said nothing.
17. He ought by rights to have died of shame at 30, or of drink at 50.
18. By rights this guy should be alongside the big names of the scene; technically he is a wizard.
19. By rights, it should be called Erica, after Eric the Red, who did the work five hundred years earlier.
20. Dat watch belong by rights ter lil Wade Hampton.
21. The property is not mine by rights.
22. By rights he should be king.
23. By rights, he should have been very tired.
24. By rights, the film should be unadulterated garbage.
25. I know. It's all wrong By rights , we shouldn't even be here. But we are.
26. I know. It's all wrong. By rights, we shouldn't even be here.
27. By rights , we shouldn't even be here. But we are here.
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28. By rights, we shouldn't even be here. But we are.
29. And by rights this week's G-20 summit ought to be an occasion for Mr. Obama to chide and chivy European leaders, in particular, into pulling their weight.
30. So banks hang on to business that they should by rights lose, but find it hard to win new good-quality business.
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