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adjective

Lordly adj. (compar. lordlier; superl. lordliest)

Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable. "She brought forth butter in a lordly dish." "Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them." "The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before."

Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. "Lords are lordliest in their wine."

Synonyms: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic; domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.

adverb

Lordly adv. In a lordly manner.

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Etymology of 'Lordly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lordly" Quotes from Famous Books

... a catapult if you like," said Hector, with lordly disdain. "It doesn't matter to me, and it certainly won't matter to any one or anything else. You'll never hit anything—girls never do. They can't throw ...

— The Thirteen Little Black Pigs - and Other Stories • Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth

... point there exist adverse and strong opinions," answered Master Handscombe. "A Roman in power and a Roman out of power are two very different species of animals. The one rules it like the lordly lion, and strikes down with his powerful paw all opponents; the other creeps forward gently and noiselessly like the cat,—not the less resolved, ...

— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston

... been known to complain about the limited circle they can hope to reach, how true, how pathetically true, is this of Iceland, with its scant eighty thousand inhabitants of poor fishermen and farmers thinly spread over the lordly spaces of their far-away, rugged and barren island! What audience can an author expect there? Nor is it to be thought that his very difficult mother-tongue will permit a comprehension of his work among the reading public ...

— Poet Lore, Volume XXIV, Number IV, 1912 • Various

... be only one head of that household, and that would not be he. He fought fiercely for a position on the executive but he did not get it. His voice in the household economy, which had commenced with the lordly "Let this be done," concluded in the timidly blustering "All right, have it ...

— Here are Ladies • James Stephens

... wages and later organized a Factory Girls' Association which included more than 2,500 members. It was aimed against the strict regimen of the boarding houses, which were owned and managed by the mills. "As our fathers resisted unto blood the lordly avarice of the British Ministry," cried the strikers, "so we, their daughters, never will wear the yoke which has been prepared ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

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