Definitions for: Lordly


[adj] of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
[adj] 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"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judges
v. 25.

Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
--South.

The maidens gathered strength and grace And
presence, lordlier than before. --Tennyson.

2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

Lords are lordliest in their wine. --Milton.

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


Lord"ly, adv.
In a lordly manner.

Synonyms: august, disdainful, grand, haughty, noble, prideful, proud, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

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