loftily
English
Etymology
Adverb
loftily (comparative more loftily, superlative most loftily)
- In a lofty manner.
- With affectation of grandness.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 475:
- "Can you play the violin?" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.