toplofty

Example Sentences

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Reading the toplofty Mr. Grantham, one can almost hear the voice of Shakespeare’s Puck—“What fools these mortals be.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

This settled quality makes Trilling’s letters a bit toplofty and dull.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2018

A ten-record set, beautiful and exacting and a touch toplofty by turns, stunningly pack aged to grace the coffee table while the records do their duty on the turntable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meantime toplofty Commissioner Moses got himself into another row.

From Time Magazine Archive

But all their gay upper works, so toplofty and frail, showed a gleaming white front to the western sun.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington