Associations to the word «Lordly»
Wiktionary
LORDLY, adjective. (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.
LORDLY, adjective. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
LORDLY, adjective. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
LORDLY, adverb. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
Dictionary definition
LORDLY, adjective. Of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage".
LORDLY, adjective. 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.
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