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Adjective lordly has 2 senses
- august, grand, lordly - of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
Antonym: lowborn (indirect, via noble)
- disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering - 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"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
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