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

A shiftless cheat with toplofty schemes, Widmark sets out to get control of London wrestling.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

There he proceeded, in a sincere but somewhat toplofty way to enlighten the British public on the subject of culture.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph