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Meaning of lordly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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