单词 | olympianly |
释义 | Olympianlyadv. In an Olympian manner; loftily, condescendingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [adverb] dignelyc1374 hautainlyc1400 deignouslyc1440 disdaininglyc1485 royally?c1500 disdainouslya1513 haughtly1523 superciliously1528 disdainishly?1529 disdainfullya1533 disdainedly1535 lordlikea1555 squeamishly1571 haughtily1572 state1579 coy1581 lordly1589 overly1610 lordlily1611 condescendingly1653 on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672 coyly1673 cavalierly1718 slightily1740 skeigh1792 patronizingly1834 Olympically1839 superiorly1844 Olympianly1871 superior1891 1871 Echo 21 June 1/1 The Times..a little too Olympianly,..intimates that Mr. Gladstone's argument for the Bill ‘perishes on analysis’. 1949 Listener 17 Nov. 860/2 Augustus John..has always been olympianly remote, a psychological factor which I think the critic should remember. 1975 F. Exley Pages from Cold Island ix. 151 It was..a trumpeting command issued from Wilson's Olympianly pedantic heights. 1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 148 Note..that its not like it's any kind of Olympianly high aesthetic standards that have caused you to toss out 63% of the original octet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1871 |
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