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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, affected, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, august, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, cavalier, courtly, despotic, dictatorial, dignified, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, elitist, feudal, grand, grandiose, grave, grinding, haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, imposing, insolent, kingly, magisterial, magistral, magnificent, majestic, masterful, monocratic, noble, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, princely, puffed, queenly, regal, repressive, royal, sedate, severe, snobbish, sober, solemn, stately, statuesque, strict, supercilious, superior, suppressive, swollen, tyrannical, tyrannous, venerable, worthy
Dictionary Results for lordly:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lordly
    adj 1: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of
           august lineage" [syn: august, grand, lordly]
    2: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
       those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful
       of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty
       aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked
       with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of
       etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious
       air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn:
       disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly,
       overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
       swaggering]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lordly \Lord"ly\, adv.
   In a lordly manner.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lordly \Lord"ly\, a. [Compar. Lordlier; superl. Lordliest.]
   [Lord + -ly. Cf. Lordlike.]
   1. Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord;
      resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified;
      honorable.
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            She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judges
                                                  v. 25.
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            Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
                                                  --South.
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            The maidens gathered strength and grace
            And presence, lordlier than before.   --Tennyson.
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   2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
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            Lords are lordliest in their wine.    --Milton.

   Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic;
        domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.
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