About The Word Lordly
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Lordly
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What's The Definition Of Lordly?
[adj] of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
[adj] having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer Synonyms | Synonyms for Lordly: august | disdainful | grand | haughty | noble | prideful | proud | sniffy | supercilious | swaggering Related Terms | Find terms related to Lordly: absolute | absolutist | absolutistic | affected | arbitrary | aristocratic | arrogant | august | authoritarian | authoritative | autocratic | bossy | cavalier | courtly | despotic | dictatorial | dignified | disdainful | domineering | egotistic | elitist | feudal | grand | grandiose | grave | grinding | haughty | high and mighty | high-and-mighty | high-handed | hubristic | imperative | imperial | imperious | imposing | insolent | kingly | magisterial | magistral | magnificent | majestic | masterful | monocratic | noble | oppressive | overbearing | overruling | peremptory | princely | puffed | queenly | regal | repressive | royal | sedate | severe | snobbish | sober | solemn | stately | statuesque | strict | supercilious | superior | suppressive | swollen | tyrannical | tyrannous | U | venerable | worthy See Also | Lordly In Webster's Dictionary \Lord"ly\, a. [Compar. {Lordlier}; superl. {Lordliest}.]
[Lord + -ly. Cf. {Lordlike}.]
1. Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord;
resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified;
honorable.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judges
v. 25.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
--South.
The maidens gathered strength and grace And
presence, lordlier than before. --Tennyson.
2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Lords are lordliest in their wine. --Milton.
Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic;
domineering; arrogant. See {Imperious}.
\Lord"ly\, adv. In a lordly manner. |
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