queenly

Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

So I tried to be as queenly as possible, coming from one queen to see some more queens tonight.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

The shack was modest and tiny, a far cry from Miss Peregrine’s queenly setup.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

They may even be queenlier now than they were in 2020; at times I thought they seemed over-primed by the time off.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021

She had lost none of her beauty, but in her rough garb, browned by the sun and wind and sea, she seemed, in Claude's eyes, queenlier than ever.

From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by T. G. Marquis

The world is old,           It hath sent here none queenlier.

From A Lover's Diary, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker

"Better wait until they get their crowns on," suggested Kitty, "they'll look a heap queenlier then."

From Marjorie's Maytime by Carolyn Wells

Thou wast queenlier far Than the queenliest flower, More glorious than a star In a fairy bower.

From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley

The opening notes of a festival To jubilate the reign of the summer Beauteous, queenliest, rosy-robed comer.

From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe

Love first chose, Then prayed—"No, lily-white—or, both provide;" And Flora gave the lotus, "rose-red" dyed, And "lily-white"—the queenliest flower that blows.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold

Thus he paints the poor nymph beloved of Apollo,—the clearest and queenliest in prophecy and command of all the sibyls,—as an ugly crone, with the arms of Goliath, poring down upon a single book.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

It was filled to overflowing with the youth of the neighborhood, and Agnes Farwell, Joe's niece, the queenliest of them all, was leading the dance, her dark face aglow, her deep brown eyes alight.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

"I am a good prophet," he assured her, and now he let the suppressed merriment dance at will in his pupils, "but don't forget that a queen's queenliest necessity is—kindness."

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck