Example Sentences

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She ceased to smile upon her youthful admirers and treated them so curtly or talked to them so toploftily that she got the reputation of having become a man-hater.

From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Kelly, Florence Finch

He therefore toploftily declares that Mr. Shaw is an unbalanced person, a licensed jester.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich