rightways

adj, adv — 4 senses

rightways

adj

Etymology From right + ways.

1

In a correct or normal orientation.

She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself2004, Andrew Klavan, Dynamite Road, page 96:
Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel.2011, Stacy Carlson, Among the Wonderful:

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She began to lose her sense of perspective, what was rightways up or down.2012, Di Morrissey, Kimberley Sun:

rightways

adv

Etymology From right + ways.

1

In a normal or correct orientation.

Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal2004, Ronne Hartfield, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family, page 111:
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 space2007, Robert Amos, Artists in Their Studios: Where Art Is Born, page 25:

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I went out to the hallway to turn the mop bucket back rightways and consider the options.2009, Tim Sandlin, Rowdy in Paris:

2

Rightward.

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 side1918, William Hay, The escape of the notorious Sir William Heans, page 398:
But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks.1987, R. Conrad, Act of Writing, page 17:

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"They're trying to take out the tires," John said, wheeling rightways.1997, Jack Womack, Elvissey, page 160:

3

Rightly.

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 are1878, Jean Middlemass, “Peter Stott's Dream”, in Belgravia, volume 34, page 25:

Related terms: rightside, rightwise

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