Usually means: In a superior or proud manner.
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  1. loftily: Merriam-Webster
  2. loftily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loftily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. loftily: Vocabulary.com
  5. Loftily, loftily: Wordnik
  6. loftily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. loftily: Wiktionary
  8. Loftily, loftily: Dictionary.com
  9. Loftily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. loftily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. loftily: Rhymezone
  12. Loftily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. loftily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. loftily: FreeDictionary.org
  15. loftily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. loftily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. loftily: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  To a great height.
▸ adverb:  With affectation of grandness.

Similar:
toploftily, unloftily, alpinely, aloft, toweringly, soaringly, liftingly, elevatedly, loomingly, exaltedly, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, meekly, unassumingly

Types:
aloof, arrogant, condescending, haughty, patronizing, more...

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Similar:
toploftily, unloftily, alpinely, aloft, toweringly, soaringly, liftingly, elevatedly, loomingly, exaltedly, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, meekly, unassumingly

Types:
aloof, arrogant, condescending, haughty, patronizing, more...



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