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lord·ly

 (lôrd′lē)
adj. lord·li·er, lord·li·est
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lord.
2. Very dignified and noble: a lordly and charitable enterprise.
3. Pretentiously arrogant and overbearing.
adv.
1. In a dignified, noble fashion befitting or characteristic of a lord.
2. In a pretentiously arrogant and overbearing manner.

lord′li·ness n.
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lordly

(ˈlɔːdlɪ)
adj, -lier or -liest
1. haughty; arrogant; proud
2. of or befitting a lord
adv
archaic in the manner of a lord
ˈlordliness n
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lord•ly

(ˈlɔrd li)

adj. -li•er, -li•est,
adv. adj.
1. suitable for a lord; grand.
2. insolently imperious; haughty.
adv.
[before 1000]
lord′li•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.lordly - of or befitting a lordlordly - of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
noble - of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"
2.lordly - 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
proud - feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes"
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lordly

adjective
1. proud, arrogant, lofty, stuck-up (informal), patronizing, dictatorial, condescending, imperious, domineering, overbearing, haughty, tyrannical, despotic, disdainful, high-handed, supercilious, high and mighty (informal), toffee-nosed (slang, chiefly Brit.), hoity-toity (informal) their lordly indifference to patients
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lordly

adjective
1. Exercising authority:
2. Large and impressive in size, scope, or extent:
3. Overly convinced of one's own superiority and importance:
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مُتَكَبِّر، بِكِبْرِياء
povýšený
prægtigstorslået
nagyúri
tiginmannlegur; òóttafullur

lordly

[ˈlɔːdlɪ] ADJ (lordlier (compar) (lordliest (superl))) [house, vehicle] → señorial, señoril; [manner] → altivo, arrogante; [command] → imperioso
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lordly

[ˈlɔːrdli] adj
(= arrogant) → hautain(e)
noble, majestueux/euseLord Mayor nlord-maire m (titre du maire des principales villes anglaises et galloises)
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lordly

adj (+er)
(= magnificent)vornehm; house(hoch)herrschaftlich
(= proud, haughty)hochmütig, arrogant; tone of voiceherrisch, gebieterisch
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lordly

[ˈlɔːdlɪ] adj (pej) (person, manner) → altero/a, altezzoso/a; (bearing, castle) → nobile, maestoso/a
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lord

(loːd) noun
1. a master; a man or animal that has power over others or over an area. The lion is lord of the jungle. gran señor
2. (with capital when used in titles) in the United Kingdom etc a nobleman or man of rank. Lord
3. (with capital) in the United Kingdom, used as part of several official titles. the Lord Mayor. Lord
ˈlordly adjective
grand or proud. a lordly attitude.grandioso
ˈlordliness noun
grandeza
ˈLordship noun
(with His, ~Your etc) a word used in speaking to, or about, a man with the title `Lord' and also certain judges who do not have this title. Thank you, Your Lordship.señoría
the Lord
God; Christ. el Señor
lord it over
to act like a lord or master towards. Don't think you can lord it over us. mandonear a alguien
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References in classic literature ?
O no, the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim; makes them a little wrongheaded in that direction in which they are rightest, and on goes the game again with new whirl, for a generation or two more.
Including forms that reach beyond themselves--in prosodic terms, forms that escape their normative couplet structure--to expose another kind of generative rhythm: Nor any memory of thee anywhere; For never Muse has bound about thine hair The high Pierian flower whose graft outgrows All summer kinship of the summer rose And colour of deciduous days, nor shed Reflex and flush of heaven about thine head, Nor reddened brows made pale by floral grief With splendid shadow from that lordlier leaf.
As the historian Golo Mann notes in his brief, brilliant paragraph on George, he "taught the German language a steep, sometimes bewitchingly beautiful artistry," but "to be lordlier than one's time, to sit in judgment over it with priestly gestures, for this, sooner or later, one will be punished."