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

The only character in End of Summer untouched by the money is a toplofty old scientist who characterizes the rest of the cast as "the great mass of the uninformed and the inexact."

From Time Magazine Archive

By his notable lack of heroics, Reporter Churchill won back the regard of correspondents who had been offended by his toplofty manners.

From Time Magazine Archive

But all their gay upper works, so toplofty and frail, showed a gleaming white front to the western sun.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington