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Meanings of lordliness in English
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
Synonyms
Examples for "arrogance"
Examples for "arrogance"
1
Lucky said that the arrogance of Europe belittled the beliefs of millions.
2
The result: an arrogance that makes colleagues unwilling to work with you.
3
This is yet another sign of arrogance from this government, Goldsmith said.
4
Precisely identifying the point when that confidence tipped into arrogance is difficult.
5
Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
1
The haughtiness of these ecclesiastical princes drove them to the proudest humility.
2
But the more they humbled themselves, the higher was his haughtiness raised.
3
And, when the prayer was over, he said with his old haughtiness:
4
She dresses well and carries herself with a kind of sweet haughtiness.
5
He had lost somewhat of his assurance, his pride and overbearing haughtiness.
1
To think otherwise takes the hauteur of a 1950s East Berlin apparatchik.
2
There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness.
3
She has neither airs nor hauteur; you will be marvellously well received.
4
She stalked off with as much hauteur as her arthritis would allow.
5
An air of studied hauteur and indifference as they approached the corner.
1
Some senior players shared his displeasure with the manager's selections and high-handedness.
2
Naturally, the people of Dingle are upset at this ministerial high-handedness.
3
For his high-handedness she would make him suffer in kind.
4
It will be construed as the usual high-handedness Europe employs in relation to Latin America.
5
Even the 'democratic interventionists' were angered by Wilson's high-handedness.
Usage of lordliness in English
1
All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain-andnone of the duties.
2
With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.
3
Dom Manuel smiled, and you saw that he retained at least his former lordliness.
4
But Josephine felt nothing humiliating in his lordliness.
5
The thing of importance is everywhere the individual who is trying to show off his lordliness.
6
Command, mastery, lordliness, are bred into its tones.
7
He liked the lordliness of giving largess.
8
The humbleness and poverty of her surroundings brought out into relief the wealth and lordliness of her charms.
9
There was no lordliness about Traill.
10
He had put on weight, increased in size, and, protected by the taboo, had become self-confident almost to lordliness.
11
Their lordliness, their strong self-regard, and their coolness of heart, have somehow thwarted the chance of their racial progress.
12
He took his station on a taller hilltop and gave voice to his lordliness in a neigh that rang and re-rang down a hollow.
13
She missed the aristocratic twang in his voice, and the hesitation for words, and the fluid lordliness with which he rolled over difficulties in speech.
14
All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain-andnone of the duties.
15
With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.
16
Dom Manuel smiled, and you saw that he retained at least his former lordliness.
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Translations for lordliness
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Lordliness through the time