loftily

Example Sentences

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Bye, bye, baby/ I’ll send for you/ Ain’t got much money right now/ I’ll come back a millionaire, he croons softly, loftily, at the end of “Hollywood.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

The president - a wealthy businessman and former liberation struggle icon, once backed by Nelson Mandela to succeed him - loftily declared that he was innocent.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2022

When his popularity underwent the second-quickest plunge in French presidential history, one of his advisers, asked what mistakes the government had made, answered loftily: “We were probably too intelligent, too subtle.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022

“It probably isn’t very logical or efficient to use music to investigate the true nature of being and the human condition,” Kate Soper writes in the notes for her loftily titled new album.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

It must have cost a good deal of Estraven’s money, that money I had loftily handed over to him in Mishnory.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin