The phrase "almost rightful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or claim that is nearly justified or deserving of recognition, but not entirely so.
Example: "While his argument had merit, it was only almost rightful in the context of the broader discussion."
Alternatives: "nearly justified" or "partially valid".
My family discriminated against me and denied me my rightful property rights.
I have always read the Williams poem to be a sly assertion of art's power to compensate: it's not just an apology that the rightful plum owner, almost always imagined as a woman, gets — it is a poem, a poem still read and taught all over the world.
China has convinced itself that it is the rightful owner of almost the entire sea.
Most sports have rightful provisions for retroactive penalties.
He challenged his readers and audiences to burst bubbles of conventional wisdom on almost every issue imaginable, from the rightful place of women to the pretensions of empires, from the glory of war to the treatment of animals, from homosexuality to children's rights, from religious doctrine to the treatment of the poor.
The roots of the schism between Sunnis and Shiites, going back almost 1,400 years, lie in differences over the rightful leaders of Islam after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.
Gerald M. Moan, the party chairman whose stewardship of the national committee meeting precipitated the walkout, said that his control of $2.5 million in federal money to stage the convention made him and his followers -- almost all of them Buchanan supporters -- the rightful claimants to authority.
The footage, taken in the early 1970s, was lost for almost 30 years, and only returned to its rightful owner in the year 2000.
"It is about putting Richard in his rightful place.
OK, glitz and glamour have their rightful place, but did we really need almost three hours of it?
