What is "toplofty"

Usage examples of "toplofty".

It was time to take this toplofty beast down a peg, she decided as his face turned an interesting shade of purple.

He is as toplofty and arrogant a man as I have ever encountered, save for my father, though there does seem to be a softer streak buried beneath.

I venture to think that he will be toplofty and full of his own consequence, like his father!

But the toplofty certainty with which these condescending clerics held their obtuse doctrines rankled and irritated me.

He paused, striking a toplofty pose, apparently waiting for the applause of the multitude.

Duke of Bewcastle, looking dark and elegant and toplofty as he stood at the opposite side of the room conversing with a handsome raven-haired lady who was seated and sipping from a glass of wine.

But you are doing it in your own inimitable fashion by growing colder and more toplofty rather than more heated like the rest of us lesser mortals.

It was such an archaic and insulting term, though no more than Hester should expect from the toplofty Lady Ainsley.

I would have called him arrogant, toplofty, unbearably smug and sure of himself at times.

But the toplofty certainty with which these condescending clerics held their obtuse doctrines rankled and irritated me.