loftily
Example Sentences
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Bye, bye, baby/ I’ll send for you/ Ain’t got much money right now/ I’ll come back a millionaire, he croons softly, loftily, at the end of “Hollywood.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
The president - a wealthy businessman and former liberation struggle icon, once backed by Nelson Mandela to succeed him - loftily declared that he was innocent.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022
When his popularity underwent the second-quickest plunge in French presidential history, one of his advisers, asked what mistakes the government had made, answered loftily: “We were probably too intelligent, too subtle.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
John Ghazvinian, a historian and former journalist, claims, loftily but not altogether without merit, that his book is the “most extensive and wide-ranging study ever undertaken on the history of U.S.-Iranian relations.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2021
“I’d want to come back as a cow,” said Mini loftily.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
