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• s  of or befitting a lord
  heir to a lordly fortune
• s  having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
  his lordly manners were offensive

• But they were vagabonds, getting by on good looks, lordly manners and copious spending.
• Connected with the main building of the American Museum of Natural History, this memorial is a vast hall which presents to the street a lordly Roman entrance arch.
• The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble.

• august
• grand
• disdainful
• haughty
• imperious
• overbearing
• prideful
• sniffy
• supercilious
• swaggering

News & Articles

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• In new battleground over toxic reform, American Chemistry Council targets the states
  In the bare-knuckle war over toxic chemicals, the fight between industry and activists has shifted noticeably from Washington, D.C., to state venues such as the golden-domed Capitol that rises over Hartford like a lordly manse.
  Sept. 10, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Vin Scully in AtlantaBraves.com
  The one thing you have to remember was the origin of the rivalry, which would be the Brooklyn Dodgers -- the hapless trolley Dodgers, the borough that elicited laughs whenever mentioned -- and the lordly pinstripers in the Bronx,said Scully,...
• Mark Leyner in Nashua Telegraph
  I think it's important that there's actually a name for eye gunk - mucopolysaccharide,Leyner said. "Let's share that information. But without striking a tone of lordly authority."
• Edwin Markham in YourHub.com
  Markham wrote, "When he fell, in whirlwind he went, as when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, goes with a great shout upon the hills and leaves a lonesome place against the sky".