"toplofty" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toploftier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toploftiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "toploftier"
      },
      "expansion": "toplofty (comparative toploftier, superlative toploftiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "toploftily"
        },
        {
          "word": "toploftiness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, John Kendrick Bangs, “Unexpected Pomp at the Perkins's”, in Paste Jewels",
          "text": "[T]he butler had entered, bearing in a toplofty fashion a huge silver platter, upon which lay a superb salmon, beautifully cooked and garnished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956 November 5, “The Press: Change at the Guardian”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-11-25",
          "text": "Britain's Manchester Guardian . . . often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mary Balogh, No Man's Mistress, page 373",
          "text": "A more toplofty, chilling man she had never known.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Self-important, haughty."
      ],
      "id": "en-toplofty-en-adj-E3~vlvkz",
      "links": [
        [
          "Self-important",
          "self-important"
        ],
        [
          "haughty",
          "haughty"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "toploftical"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "condescending"
        },
        {
          "word": "pompous"
        },
        {
          "word": "pretentious"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "toplofty"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "toploftily"
    },
    {
      "word": "toploftiness"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toploftier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toploftiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "toploftier"
      },
      "expansion": "toplofty (comparative toploftier, superlative toploftiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "toploftical"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, John Kendrick Bangs, “Unexpected Pomp at the Perkins's”, in Paste Jewels",
          "text": "[T]he butler had entered, bearing in a toplofty fashion a huge silver platter, upon which lay a superb salmon, beautifully cooked and garnished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956 November 5, “The Press: Change at the Guardian”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-11-25",
          "text": "Britain's Manchester Guardian . . . often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mary Balogh, No Man's Mistress, page 373",
          "text": "A more toplofty, chilling man she had never known.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Self-important, haughty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Self-important",
          "self-important"
        ],
        [
          "haughty",
          "haughty"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "condescending"
    },
    {
      "word": "pompous"
    },
    {
      "word": "pretentious"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toplofty"
}