lordly

Example Sentences

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Anthony León is her lyrical tenor fiancé, Ernesto Petti Meg’s lordly loutish jealous husband and Nathan Bowles the loutish Dr. Caius.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

Peter Dinklage’s mental patient is a lordly, theatrical Christ, who speaks fondly of opera and England.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2020

All the baby’s dismay vanished at once, and she lay in Sister Fenella’s arms, looking around with a lordly complacency.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman