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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LORD'LY, a. [lord and like.]
1. Becoming a lord; pertaining to a lord.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Every rich and lordly swain, with pride would drag about her chain.
LORD'LY, adv. Proudly; imperiously; despotically.
A famished lion, issuing from the wood, roars lordly fierce.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (lordlier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. a. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a lord ; dignified b. grand, noble 2. exhibiting the pride and assurance associated with one of the highest birth or rank Synonyms: see proud • lordliness noun • lordly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (lordlier, lordliest) 1 haughty, imperious. 2 suitable for a lord. Derivatives: lordliness n. Etymology: OE hlafordlic (as LORD)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judges v. 25. Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them. --South. The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before. --Tennyson. 2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. Lords are lordliest in their wine. --Milton. Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic; domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lordly Lord"ly, adv. In a lordly manner.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that someone's behaviour is lordly, you are critical of them because they treat other people in a proud and arrogant way. ...their usual lordly indifference to patients. ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval] 2. Lordly means impressive and suitable for a lord. ...the site of a lordly mansion. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Dignified, majestic, grand, noble, lofty. 2. Proud, haughty, domineering, imperious, overbearing, insolent, tyrannical, despotic, arrogant. 3. Large, liberal, noble. II. ad. Proudly, imperiously, despotically, haughtily.

Moby Thesaurus

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