Examples of use of by rights
1. So by rights, we should have been discouraged from flying.
2. By rights, Europe‘s biggest economy should be a goldmine of successful, entrepreneurial companies.
3. For the scheme ought by rights to be anathema to him and his party.
4. It‘s sponsored by if.com so by rights should be the ‘iffy‘, which would be better.
5. "He ... by rights should have been consigned to the oblivion reserved for all nonentities.