loftily
advEtymology From lofty + -ly.
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.
- "I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
- "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: