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lordly
(encz) | lordly,panský |
Lordly
(gcide) | Lordly \Lord"ly\, adv.
In a lordly manner.
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Lordly
(gcide) | 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) | 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] |
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Lordly
(gcide) | Lordly \Lord"ly\, adv.
In a lordly manner.
[1913 Webster]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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Unlordly
(gcide) | Unlordly \Unlordly\
See lordly. |
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