adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another shows a large and lordly daemon with a wasp-tail, standing between two human attendants.
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He had been too lordly to do this at one time, preferring to give them as Christmas presents.
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Hence its rather lordly detachment, its contempt for superstition, and its obvious scepticism.
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It contains many lordly estates of those who made their fortunes before World War I in ship building and engineering.
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Its usefulness presupposed markets where the lord's agents, or the beneficiaries of lordly gifts, could exchange it for consumables.
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The lordly tripod is replaced by a broken palm-tree overhanging a mourning woman.
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They drew rein in Sparta before the lordly dwelling, a house far more splendid than either young man had ever seen.