loftily

Example Sentences

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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

If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2019

He dismisses the idea loftily and informs me I know nothing about it.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque