The word "rightful" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word "rightful" to describe someone or something having a rightful claim or title to something. For example, "The rightful heir to the throne was chosen on their 18th birthday."
Salmond quickly presented his party as the rightful winner and, when coalition negotiations with the Liberal Democrats failed over the question of an independence referendum, he formed a minority government.
Irrespective of the rightful joy felt by the Hearts fans, these are still uncertain days.
France might have had more style and Brazil more ebullience but Argentina came to Mexico with one exceptional player backed by ever-improving teamwork – and yesterday the gained their rightful reward.
Megalomania has often given a fillip to science, and I am given to understand that cryonic advances today are basically being driven by the Kevin Pietersen Society's desire to restore him to this rightful place in the England batting order.
Most of the residents think the artworks should be returned to their rightful owners, though establishing who they are may take some time: many of the remaining records from galleries looted by the Nazis are sketchy and incomplete.
Their rightful claim of social exploitation by a group of disproportionately wealthy bankers with a distinctly cavalier attitude towards social and economic equality went viral.
The idea that an English elite was the rightful possessor of the language and governed its proper use was powerful enough to haunt even James Joyce, arguably the greatest re-inventor of English since Shakespeare.
"But the Church of England takes considerable, and I think rightful, pride in being a presence in every community in the country.
Was it rightful anger or mere nostalgia for a bygone era? 11.35pm: Platform 1, Paddington Station.
But Sony's treatment of Spider-Man continues to be so hamfisted (not to mention blatantly fuelled by financial motivations) that there will be concerns about whether even Marvel's golden touch can restore Peter Parker's alter-ego to his rightful place in the pantheon of 21st-century comic-book heroes.
Octopuses are Houdini-like in their ability to escape their tanks and are known to end up in adjacent tanks where they eat the rightful inhabitants.
