Adjective
In a correct or normal orientation.
Usage- not-comparable
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She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself
Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel.
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She began to lose her sense of perspective, what was rightways up or down.
Adverb
In a normal or correct orientation.
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Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal
When I work on it rightways up, I am conscious of the figuration. When I work on it upside down, then I'm thinking of the space
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I went out to the hallway to turn the mop bucket back rightways and consider the options.
Rightward.
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Conapanny did not make at once east up the hill, but led a course slanting rightways over the shoulder, descending about four o'clock into the gully on the hinder side
But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks.
"They're trying to take out the tires," John said, wheeling rightways.
Rightly.
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Now, that is a thing as I never was asked for before, and don't rightways know what it be; if it's sealing-wax, it's welcome you are