lordly

lordly
    adj 1: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of
           august lineage" [syn: {august}, {grand}, {lordly}]
    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"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn:
       {disdainful}, {haughty}, {imperious}, {lordly},
       {overbearing}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious},
       {swaggering}]
    

Lordly \Lord"ly\, adv.
   In a lordly manner.
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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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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