adjective
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resembling or appropriate to a queen
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having the rank of queen
adverb
Other Word Forms
- queenliness noun
- unqueenly adjective
Etymology
Origin of queenly
Example Sentences
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People name their children after her and tattoo their skin with her likeness: a queenly woman surrounded by sunbeams, her head bowed in prayer.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.
So I tried to be as queenly as possible, coming from one queen to see some more queens tonight.
From Los Angeles Times
Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.
From Salon
“You get knots, right?” could hardly be a tinier change, but many such changes, over many, many hours, smooth her annoyingly ellipsis-crowded writing into a natural, intimate spoken narrative — if always a queenly one.
From New York Times
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