lordly
1
8.0
- adjective
- /ˈlɔrdli/
:
señorial
- She went too far on one birthday when Sam took her some caviar, and she said with a lordly wave, "Put it with the others in the kitchen." Rightly incensed by this cavalier behavior, Sam left, putting it in his pocket.
Examples
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I was taken aback by this lordly, declarative statement.
Fiction book (1990) -
Maria would not go that far, but she would do everything in her power to wring compassion from the lordly.
Academic text (1999) -
Have her, then, but you are a lordly fool.
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"I may not," the lady's lordly brother replied.
Fiction book (2000) -
And all the while, market shares eroded; execs at the big three take home lordly salaries and bonuses.
Blog text (16) -
Lordly authority was thus visibly manifest in much of the church's decorative scheme.
Academic text (2018) -
This is a preliminary study, a pilot for a wider examination of rural noble religious culture and the parish church, which will go on to examine the reception and impact of lordly ideas by rural populations.
Academic text (2018) -
This type of controller is incapable of needing anyone but himself, and it is that rigidly fixated belief that lies behind the lordly attitude that dwells in him.
Blog text (9) -
These conditions led to industrial conflicts in the 1830s, when Crozer was accused of being "an aristocrat, lordly oppressor, and tyrant" (pp. 371-372).
Academic text (1998) -
He looked at the workers with a lordly disdain, as if he believed he was above them.
Synonyms
260
4.5
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
65
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
30
5.8
Being proud and trying to control other people
22
7.1
Rude and not showing respect to other people
20
8.2
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
6.3
A person who thinks they are better than other people and looks down on them
14
8.1
Acting proud and looking down on other people
8
8.4
Acting like you are better than others and expecting them to obey you
8
6.1
Feeling or acting as if you are better than other people
8
7.0
Showing that you think someone or something is not worth respect
5
9.9
Someone who acts proud and shows they feel better than others
5
8.7
Acting as if morally better than other people
4
8.9
Acting as if you are better than other people
3
8.6
Acting like you are better than other people
2
7.0
To act very confident and proud to get attention
1
8.5
Acting as if you are better than other people
Acting like you are better than other people
Acting too proud and boastful
Antonyms
How Haughty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lordly comes from lord, which long ago came from Old English parts hlāf 'loaf' and weard 'guardian' because a lord was once the household 'bread keeper'. So to be lordly is to act like that powerful person, proud and looking down on others.