queenly

Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

So I tried to be as queenly as possible, coming from one queen to see some more queens tonight.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

She was magnificent in her queenly desolation, and on her face was an expression of sweetness and serenity she never had in her grievous life.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

They may even be queenlier now than they were in 2020; at times I thought they seemed over-primed by the time off.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021

And then I heard—ah! ne'er was known Such judgment without malice, Nor queenlier council ever heard In senate, house or palace!—

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

Now, sweet mistress, will you deign To come with me, to change these cheerless woods For something queenlier?

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

She drew herself up like a queen, but only that she might look queenlier for his sake, and, bending, kissed his brow, and whispered back his vows.

From A Mountain Woman by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Can the world afford him no worthier bride— No bride with a queenlier grace?

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner

Love first chose, Then prayed—"No, lily-white—or, both provide;" And Flora gave the lotus, "rose-red" dyed, And "lily-white"—the queenliest flower that blows.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold

Thou wast queenlier far Than the queenliest flower, More glorious than a star In a fairy bower.

From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley

"I am a good prophet," he assured her, and now he let the suppressed merriment dance at will in his pupils, "but don't forget that a queen's queenliest necessity is—kindness."

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

Eaux Bonnes and Cauterets are close rivals, but Luchon is the queenliest of the triplet.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young— A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe