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lordliness
noun as in arrogance
Strong matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
Weak matches
Example Sentences
There was an artistry to his shots and a lordliness to his moves.
It likewise becomes difficult to sort out how much of the action results from ambient gay animus toward Pharus and how much from his own lordliness: He’s the best singer, and he knows it.
It’s time to put Kirk Cousins on the field, and to say so is not to slight Robert Griffin III, though he will certainly take it as an affront to his lordliness.
My only reservation is that Fry has such natural lordliness and is so handsomely bearded that you feel he would be a catch for any Olivia.
It held a conciliatory middle course between aristocratic and middle-class ideals, combining the proud lordliness of the one and the practical luxurious tendencies of the other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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