toplofty
English
Adjective
toplofty (comparative toploftier, superlative toploftiest)
- Self-important, haughty.
- 1897, John Kendrick Bangs, “Unexpected Pomp at the Perkins's”, in Paste Jewels:
- [T]he butler had entered, bearing in a toplofty fashion a huge silver platter, upon which lay a superb salmon, beautifully cooked and garnished.
- 1956 November 5, “The Press: Change at the Guardian”, in Time:
- Britain's Manchester Guardian . . . often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven.
- 2002, Mary Balogh, No Man's Mistress, →ISBN, page 373:
- A more toplofty, chilling man she had never known.
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Synonyms
- condescending, pompous, pretentious
Derived terms
- toploftily
- toploftiness
Related terms
- toploftical
References
- toplofty at OneLook Dictionary Search