lordly

Example Sentences

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That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

The lordly NFL could be brought to heel, either with a 10-figure payment or a trial in which Kroenke and Goodell could squirm uncomfortably on the witness stand.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2021

The nobility owned a significant percentage of the land of France outright – about one-third – and had lordly rights over most of the rest of it.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

"I'd tell Mother how you helped me, and you could stay—" "Would m'lady permit? Could I shoe your horses for you, and make swords for your lordly brothers?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin