Define the word lordly"Lordly" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lordly \Lord"ly\, adv.
In a lordly manner.
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"Lordly" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Lordly \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.
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She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judges
v. 25.
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Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
--South.
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The maidens gathered strength and grace
And presence, lordlier than before. --Tennyson.
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2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine. --Milton.
Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic;
domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.
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"lordly" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
lordly
adj 1: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of
august lineage" [syn: august, grand]
2: 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
[syn: disdainful, haughty, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
swaggering]
[also: lordliest, lordlier]
"lordly" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "lordly":
U, 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, venerable, worthy
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