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Definition: By Rights |
By RightsAdverb1. With reason or justice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: By RightsSynonym: properly (adv). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | By rights we shouldn't even be here (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "by rights"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me të drejtë (properly, with reason). (various references) | |
Arabic | بحق (deservedly, rightly, with justification, with reason). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | по права. (various references) | |
Czech | správnì (all right, aright, correctly, duly, precisely, properly, right, rightly). (various references) | |
Finnish | oikeutta myöten (in justice). (various references) | |
French | bonne justice, en toute justice. (various references) | |
German | von Rechts wegen (by law). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפי "צ"ק ו"יושר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jogosan (by right, deservedly, justly, right, rightfully), jog szerint (by right, de jure). (various references) | |
Manx | liorish cairys, ayns cairys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ybay ightsray.(various references) | |
Russian | по праву (de jure, justifiably, rightfully). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | po pravilniku (right: by rights). (various references) | |
Spanish | en justicia. (various references) | |
Swedish | i kraft. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | справедливо (impartially, justly, right, rightfully, rightly, upright), по праву (rightfully). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: brights. | |
-2 letters: bights, births, bright, girths, griths, hybris, rights, righty, shirty, thyrsi, yirths. | |
-3 letters: bight, birth, bitsy, brigs, brits, girsh, girth, girts, grist, grith, grits, right, shirt, sight, trigs, yirth. | |
-4 letters: bigs, bits, brig, bris, brit, ghis, gibs, girt, gist, gits, grit, gyri, hist, hits, ribs, rigs, shri, sigh, sith, stir, thir, this, trig. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: eyebrights. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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