The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uprightly \Up"right`ly\, adv. In an upright manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In an upright manner.
WordNet
adv. in an honorable manner; "he acted honorably" [syn: honorably] [ant: dishonorably]
in an upright position
Usage examples of "uprightly".
The frame of the house was constructed of large bamboos planted uprightly, and secured together at intervals by transverse stalks of the light wood of the habiscus, lashed with thongs of bark.
The authority this man, whose name was Kolory, seemed to exercise over the rest, the episcopal part he took in the Feast of Calabashes, his sleek and complacent appearance, the mystic characters which were tattooed upon his chest, and above all the mitre he frequently wore, in the shape of a towering head-dress, consisting of part of a cocoanut branch, the stalk planted uprightly on his brow, and the leaflets gathered together and passed round the temples and behind the ears, all these pointed him out as Lord Primate of Typee.
Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.
Would he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward -- and a reward very voluntarily bestowed -- within a reasonable period from Edmund's marrying Mary.