toplofty
Example Sentences
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Reading the toplofty Mr. Grantham, one can almost hear the voice of Shakespeare’s Puck—“What fools these mortals be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
This settled quality makes Trilling’s letters a bit toplofty and dull.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2018
But until Big Steel broke its toplofty silence, no one was willing to gamble on the prospects of Geneva doing the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
A shiftless cheat with toplofty schemes, Widmark sets out to get control of London wrestling.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had sensible notions; he saw things as they really were, and with him there would never be any nonsense about toplofty ideas.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
