loftily

Etymology

lofty + -ly

adv

  1. To a great height.
    […] trees, most of them bearing blossom or fruit, rose loftily into the air, and extended their broad leaves like parasols to the sun. 1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, page 157
  2. With affectation of grandness.
    "Can you play the violin?" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 475

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