Contemptuous vs Lordly - What's the difference?
contemptuous | lordly | Synonyms |
Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.
Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
* Bible, Judges v. 25
* Tennyson
* 1849 — , chapter 27
* 1897 — , chapter 27
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
* Milton
In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
* 1891 , , The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation ,
* {{quote-book, 1925, Claude Kean, Stock Charges Against the Bible, year_published=2003
, passage=Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.}}
Contemptuous is a synonym of lordly.
As adjectives the difference between contemptuous and lordly
is that contemptuous is showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect while lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.As an adverb lordly is
in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility.contemptuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Derived terms
* contemptuouslylordly
English
Adjective
- Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.
- It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;
- There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
- Lords are lordliest in their wine.
Adverb
(er)]Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3igAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=lordly page 56,
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