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toploftical

a. (context humorous dated English) haughty, hoity-toity, superior.

Usage examples of "toploftical".

A pilot, by tradition too toploftical to speak to any lesser rating than a ship's master, could have been expected to rebuff such a thing as a mere passenger, but this pilot seemed surprised and pleased to be accosted in his native language by a foreigner.