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Meanings of lordly in English
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
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Usage of lordly in English
1
The flatter the land grew, the broader did the lordly river become.
2
Wolfbrand, too, was seen in the strife bearing him in lordly wise.
3
But I like the fiction of a lordly ordering of the repast.
4
And on this wise would one of the lordly young men speak:
5
I'll make you rich in goods and give you the lordly robes.
6
But others among the lordly suitors will bend it by and by.
7
Then the lordly Agamemnon slew the lambs, and prayed again to Zeus.
8
We were put in possession of a lordly sitting-room, hung with crimson.
9
Jonathan turned to her, looking very lordly and solemn-andnot particularly Chinese.
10
Then he rotted the orator on his lordly oblivion of one fact.
11
Sir Persant was the most lordly knight that ever thou lookedst on.
12
Next morning the lordly Sargon lay on his felt couch till midday.
13
First of all the lordly, abandoned attitudes of Mr. Jones disconcerted him.
14
I shall let him realize that such lordly assumption brings swift retribution.
15
It is a wonderful old seventeenth-century manor, surrounded by a lordly estate.
16
We will have to appeal to you to exert your lordly authority.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common