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Significados de lordly em inglês
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
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Examples for "haughty"
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Supported by Assyria, the kings of Israel had become powerful and haughty.
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Really the proud and the haughty have no luck in this world.
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Although still haughty, his voice was clearly chagrined at his narrow escape.
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The gentleman looked at him sideways and answered in a haughty manner:
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But Sina was haughty; she slighted the sisters and treated them shamefully.
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Occasionally, Mr. Clay was very imperious and displayed bad temper in debate.
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The words were civil, but the tone was imperious in the extreme.
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Hunger and fatigue were forgotten in the face of this imperious necessity.
4
This imperious girl belonged, of course, in the camp of the enemy.
5
He was neither haughty in his language, nor imperious in his demeanour.
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Geoffrey said it gave him a cold, disdainful look and passed on.
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I never knew an animal could be disdainful until I met Sasha.
3
This in a disdainful tone, and the white teeth clicked softly together.
4
The pursuing fighters came on, almost disdainful of their quarry's defensive efforts.
5
After that Nana pointed with disdainful action at the stands and continued:
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An inquiry found police actions were overbearing and infringed on civil rights.
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Parents should be overbearing either, but instead encourage children healthy online behaviour.
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Many Latin American states see their northern neighbour as overbearing and exploitative.
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There was also criticism of the overbearing corporate nature of the Games.
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Many Latin American states see their northern neighbor as overbearing and exploitative.
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Craig straightened in his seat; but not as before in attitude supercilious.
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A moment later, he shoots me that supercilious look of the über-geeky.
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Yet there was nothing sarcastic or supercilious in the way Ames spoke.
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He was no longer the drawling, supercilious naval officer in resplendent uniform.
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You can see him; and passed on with a somewhat supercilious air.
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We've seen this swaggering, falsely confident boor at least once too often.
2
However, this week the posturing ended up on swaggering, if unintended, show.
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He was swaggering-toofriendly; not my idea of a gentleman at all.
4
The new movie is jammed with fireball explosions and swaggering criminal badasses.
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Celtic seem intent on staggering rather than swaggering across the finishing line.
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Young men, chests puffed out, swagger around the cars like prideful lions.
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I feared that I'd been prideful and mistaken to make him leave.
3
Cab drivers hailed him as a likely fare, to his prideful content.
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Lowry regarded it as nonsense at best, prideful and blasphemous at worst.
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I didn't have it; at that point I was still prideful.
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ARE, the smart set getting a bit sniffy this week about Barbados?
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But his own party has been just as sniffy about vocational education.
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It's on his 1972 Christmas album, which normally gets sniffy write ups.
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Some charity chiefs are actually quite sniffy about our public efforts.
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He seemed a bit sniffy about it; maybe something was lost in translation.
Uso de lordly em inglês
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The flatter the land grew, the broader did the lordly river become.
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Wolfbrand, too, was seen in the strife bearing him in lordly wise.
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But I like the fiction of a lordly ordering of the repast.
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And on this wise would one of the lordly young men speak:
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I'll make you rich in goods and give you the lordly robes.
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But others among the lordly suitors will bend it by and by.
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Then the lordly Agamemnon slew the lambs, and prayed again to Zeus.
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We were put in possession of a lordly sitting-room, hung with crimson.
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Jonathan turned to her, looking very lordly and solemn-andnot particularly Chinese.
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Then he rotted the orator on his lordly oblivion of one fact.
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Sir Persant was the most lordly knight that ever thou lookedst on.
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Next morning the lordly Sargon lay on his felt couch till midday.
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First of all the lordly, abandoned attitudes of Mr. Jones disconcerted him.
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I shall let him realize that such lordly assumption brings swift retribution.
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It is a wonderful old seventeenth-century manor, surrounded by a lordly estate.
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We will have to appeal to you to exert your lordly authority.
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