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adjective
Lordly  adj.  (compar. lordlier; superl. lordliest)  
1.
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."
2.
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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"Lordly" Quotes from Famous Books



... low-toned directions as she entered, and she wondered if the new ayah would resent his lordly attitude. But the veiled head bent over the child expressed nothing but complete docility. She answered Peter in few words, but ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... swan's feather perched jauntily on the dark, curling hair, and from a belt of pale buckskin hung a sword with a delicately chased handle. The "poor gentleman of Devon" fresh from London and the court felt as gay as a dusty barndoor fowl might feel beside a lordly peacock. ...
— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan
... of this lordly domain is Frank Meriwether. He is now in the meridian of life—somewhere about forty-five. Good cheer and an easy temper tell well upon him. The first has given him a comfortable, portly figure, and the latter a contemplative ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... an appeal to the lordly and pompous but quite gentlemanly "head waiter," a man as white as Ford Foster. A word or two to him, a finger pointed towards the upper end of the hall, and the keen eyes of the "man in authority" took ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard
... as it were, a wild requiem over the lordly ruins of the crime-stained castle of Heidelberg. Cold, and bitter, and clear was the starry night, when the weary Gotleib issued out of the Herr professor's warm house to answer the late call of a sick woman. Gotleib looked up into those illimitable depths where earths and ...
— Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing • T. S. Arthur


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