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uprightly

uprightly adverb: in an upright manner.

Adverb

uprightly (comparative more uprightly, superlative most uprightly)

  1. In an upright manner.
    • Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 15:21
    • This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, page 155

uprightly meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

uprightly in Urdu

عادلانہ

uprightly in Malayalam

നേരെചൊവ്വേ, സത്യസന്ധമായി, പരമാർത്ഥമായി

Forms of uprightly

comparativemore uprightly
superlativemost uprightly

Origin of uprightly

From upright + -ly.

Questions about uprightly

What does uprightly mean?
Uprightly means in an upright manner.
What is uprightly in Urdu?
Uprightly in Urdu is عادلانہ. See Uprightly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is uprightly?
Uprightly is an adverb.

Words near uprightly in the dictionary

  1. uprighteous
  2. uprighteously
  3. uprighteousness
  4. uprighting
  5. uprightish
  6. uprightly
  7. uprightness
  8. uprightnesses
  9. uprights
  10. uprip
  11. upripped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uprightly (page history and authors); uprightly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uprightly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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