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The right way   /raɪt weɪ/   Listen
The right way

adverb
1.
In the right manner.  Synonyms: decent, decently, in good order, properly, right.  "Can't you carry me decent?"  Antonym: improperly.






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"The right way" Quotes from Famous Books



... to part. I don't know the right way to express this. Possibly I was reissued without him; I am not sure what the process was. At any rate we separated, he remaining at the camp and I proceeding on duty to the Depot. I said good-bye to him and he nuzzled for the last time at my side pocket. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 • Various

... the iniquities worked out. I know that these crimes are being committed every day; that these great financial schemes are carried through, not only by the commission of moral crimes, but legal crimes—crimes for which those participating in them can be held responsible if they are gone after in the right way, and I am going to show the ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... a fashion of theirs, if you like," she interrupted. "You are not going the right way about it if you wish me to pay any attention to ...
— Fan • Henry Harford

... grass, and with whin and thorn-trees scattered about. Thence he saw again from time to time the huge wall of the mountains rising up into the air like a great black cloud that would swallow up the sky, and though the sight was terrible, yet it gladdened him, since he knew that he was on the right way. So far he rode, going on the whole up-hill, till at last there was a great pine-wood before him, so that he could see no ending to it either ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... to me to be a vexatious kind of Tyranny, that women have no business to exercise over men, which, merely because they having a better judgement, they have the power to do. Let men alone, and at last we find they come round to the right way, which we, by a kind of intuition, perceive at once. But better, far better, that we should let them often do wrong, than that they should have the torment of a Monitor ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


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