0 used to decribe someone who behaves as if they are better than other people -- 傲慢的,高傲的
a lordly air 高傲的神情
Is that surprising, considering the fate of the gentleman who was offered the lordly dish?
First, he said in a rather lordly fashion that the court took a different view of his legislation.
There is not now that worship of the lordly individual that there used to be.
That is not the intrusion of our lordly noses into anything.
Unremunerative development will be financed out of this lordly loan, and the revenue will not be coming in from these particular undertakings.
Their most generous and constant invocation of my lordly status, however, has tended to give me a rather exaggerated sense of my own importance.
We are really bringing him butter on a lordly dish, and, unfortunately for him, he is compelled to resist the offer.
Appealing to these arguments may be to the defenders of the free market, the lordly rebels are being intransigent in their principled resistance.