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
And in 10th, there’s North Carolina, already perceived so loftily ahead of the third season of the second iteration in Chapel Hill for Coach Mack Brown.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021
And in 1946 it was loftily repurposed as headquarters for the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020
It must have cost a good deal of Estraven’s money, that money I had loftily handed over to him in Mishnory.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
