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61presumption — n 1. assumption, presupposition, predisposition, posit, postulate; belief, conviction, confidence, bias, feeling, gut feeling; expectation, anticipation, hope, trust; inference, deduction, theory, hypothesis, thesis; thought, view, attitude,… …
62snobbery — n snobbishness, snobbiness, snobbism, condescension, condescendence, patronage; conceit, conceitedness, Inf. uppishness, Inf. snootiness, Inf. snottiness; arrogance, high horse, haughtiness, hauteur, cavalierness, cavalierism; contemptuousness,… …
63vainglory — n 1. pride, vanity, boasting, bragging, rodomontade; haughtiness, airs, cheekiness, insolence, arrogance, lordliness, pomposity, pompousness; egotism, self glorification, self laudation, self approbation, self gratulation, self applause, Fr.… …
64lordly — /ˈlɔdli/ (say lawdlee) adjective (lordlier, lordliest) 1. suitable for a lord, as things; grand or magnificent. 2. insolently imperious: lordly contempt. 3. of or relating to a lord or lords. 4. having the character or attributes of a lord, as a… …
65condescension — [n] disdain, superiority airs, civility, deference, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, patronage, patronizing attitude, superciliousness, toleration; concept 633 Ant. friendliness, humility, inferiority …
66everybody loves a lord — 1869 F. J. FURNIVALL in Queen Elizabeth’s Academy (EETS) p. xii. The second tract..is printed, not mainly because ‘John Bull loves a Lord’..but because the question of Precedence was so important a one in old social arrangements. 1908 Spectator 3 …
67lordly — ► ADJECTIVE (lordlier, lordliest) ▪ of, characteristic of, or suitable for a lord. DERIVATIVES lordliness noun …
68lordly — [lôrd′lē] adj. lordlier, lordliest [ME < OE hlafordlic] of, like, characteristic of, or suitable to a lord; specif., a) noble; grand b) haughty; overbearing adv. lordlier, lordliest in the manner of a lord lordliness n …
69comportment — noun dignified manner or conduct (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑bearing, ↑presence, ↑mien • Derivationally related forms: ↑comport, ↑bear (for: ↑bearing) …
70contemptuousness — noun the manifestation of scorn and contempt every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return • Derivationally related forms: ↑contemptuous • Hypernyms: ↑arrogance, ↑haughtiness, ↑hauteur, ↑high handedness, ↑ …
