loftily

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Adverb
  • While many elements of the story are autobiographical, there are significant differences, the most important being that his protagonist, Seita, was an idealized character who acted far more nobly and cared much better for his little sister than Nosaka himself had been capable of.
    Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Where else must a soprano nobly compete with police sirens zooming down Lake Shore Drive?
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • My For You page is a shrine to snatched young women magnanimously sharing their tips for taut faces.
    Georgia Casey, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • At nuclear summits, the Kremlin’s leader could grandly sit across from the incumbent in the White House – just like in the glory days of the Cold War – to decide on matters of international security.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Someone asked him what made the old 49ers teams so cinematic, and Lott answered by gesturing grandly behind him, where Montana was smiling for the paparazzi.
    Daniel Brown, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • Several Kennedys have served honorably and without scandal.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Buzzell served eight months in Iraq and Kuwait before being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 2009.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • On Saturday, 79-year-old Conceição Evaristo, a writer from Minas Gerais known for her powerful works centering on Black women's experiences, sat majestically atop a float designed by samba school Imperio Serrano at Rio’s famed Sambodrome.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There's also an animatronic dire wolf poised majestically in an educational diorama.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • Having traded his signature smocks and fedora for a black tuxedo and shiny Oxfords, Schnabel bowed gallantly to the crowd and embraced Isaac and his cast throughout the ovation.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Just weeks after heroically saving a neighbor’s choking 1-year-old girl, an NYPD officer was at it again, saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who had stopped breathing in his Bronx home.
    Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.
    Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The castle’s Waterloo Chamber, a magnificently opulent space that today is most commonly used for investitures but previously hosted theatrical and pantomime productions under Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria, was transformed into a screening room for the occasion.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Loftily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loftily. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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