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单词 unrightfully
释义 unˈrightfully, adv. Now rare.
[un-1 11.]
Without right; unjustifiably, unfairly, wrongly.
a1325Prose Psalter cv. 6 We han wroȝt vnryȝtfullich.c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. v. (1868) 23 Anoienge folk treden..vnryȝtfully in þe nekkes of holy men.1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 455/1 Whan they been often tymes unrightfully empeched.1470–85Malory Arthur viii. ii. 276 That is vnryghtfully asked, said kyng Melyodas.1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 336 A kynge..In batayle slayne vnryghtfully, now a martyr gloryous.c1557Abp. Parker Ps. xxxvi. 99 The wordes of hys mouth be unrightfully wayed.
1793Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 61 Between restraining it ourselves, and permitting her enemies to restrain it unrightfully, is no difference.1866Howells Venet. Life iv. 53 A great humbug and unrightfully in the guide-books.
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