Lordly
Lordly adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.
Usage example: one dinner guest was a little lordly about her status as a vegetarian, even asking the other diners how they could bear to eat dead animals
Self-asserting and lordly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Self-asserting" instead an adjective "Lordly".
Self-asserting
Self-asserting adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.
Usage example: a bunch of self-asserting upstarts who thought that they could buy their way into high society
Lordly and self-asserting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lordly" instead an adjective phrase "Self-asserting".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- lofty and lordly
- lofty and self-asserting
- pushy and lordly
- pushy and self-asserting
- insolent and lordly
- insolent and self-asserting
- haughty and lordly
- haughty and self-asserting
- assertive and lordly
- assertive and self-asserting
- pompous and lordly
- pompous and self-asserting
- arrogant and lordly
- arrogant and self-asserting
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