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justly

/ˈdʒʌstli/ adverb C1
  1. In a just or fair manner; rightfully.
  2. With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly.

Comparative justlier · Superlative justliest

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Consequently, when Marilla entered her kitchen and found the fire black out, with no sign of Anne anywhere, she felt justly disappointed and irritated.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 210 · C1
A part of the good abbé’s words, however, were wholly incomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener, and gave fantastic glimpses of new horizons, enabling him justly to estimate the delight an intellectual mind would have in following one so richly gifted as Faria along the heights of truth, where he was so much at home.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 170 · C1
Incidentally, I may tell you that we are doing the reverse of what you very justly blame, and that we are endeavouring to prevent anything like public exposure of private matters which must necessarily follow when once the case is fairly in the hands of the official police.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 113 · C1
I am justly reproved for what I feel was an unjustifiable intrusion, and I promise you that I will not mention the matter again.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 80 · C1

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