Commandingly and Lordly
(adv.) In a commanding manner.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
adjective
- Of or befitting a lord.
- usage: "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
- 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
- synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
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