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

From 1958 to 1961, sulking Giants and Dodgers fans had to put up with the lordly Yankees winning three pennants and two World Series.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

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

Suddenly Mordred was flaming at them, fired by Gawaine’s lordly tone.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White