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  • adjective comparative form of queenly: more queenly

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Examples

  • Kelly, Grace, as bearer of sex and class, 162; disapproving father of, 162; as "Miss Frigidaire," 162; queenlier-than-thou qualities of, 162; silver-screen comeback of, 163

    Who's Who 2005

  • Kelly, Grace, as bearer of sex and class, 162; disapproving father of, 162; as "Miss Frigidaire," 162; queenlier-than-thou qualities of, 162; silver-screen comeback of, 163

    Who's Who 2005

  • Kelly, Grace, as bearer of sex and class, 162; disapproving father of, 162; as "Miss Frigidaire," 162; queenlier-than-thou qualities of, 162; silver-screen comeback of, 163

    Who's Who 2005

  • "Better wait until they get their crowns on," suggested Kitty, "they'll look a heap queenlier then."

    Marjorie's Maytime Carolyn Wells 1902

  • She drew herself up like a queen, but only that she might look queenlier for his sake, and, bending, kissed his brow, and whispered back his vows.

    A Mountain Woman Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898

  • She drew herself up like a queen, but only that she might look queenlier for his sake, and, bending, kissed his brow, and whispered back his vows.

    A Mountain Woman 1896

  • Wherefore I have been considering thy desires herein, and if thou deem it meet to give a gift to Dame Elinor, and live queenlier thyself than now thou dost, then mayst thou give unto her the Castle of Greenharbour, and the six manors appertaining thereto, and withal the rights of wild-wood and fen and fell that lie thereabout.

    Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

  • She felt rise within her a purer and queenlier blood than that of the Guinevere she personated; the arch of her neck became more regal; her head rose aloft; her nostril distended itself, and she looked on with a proud smile, in full confidence that bold Lancelot would lose.

    Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

  • Wherefore I have been considering thy desires herein, and if thou deem it meet to give a gift to Dame Elinor, and live queenlier thyself than now thou dost, then mayst thou give unto her the Castle of Greenharbour, and the six manors appertaining thereto, and withal the rights of wild-wood and fen and fell that lie thereabout.

    Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair William Morris 1865

  • a purer and queenlier blood than that of the Guinevere she personated; the arch of her neck became more regal; her head rose aloft; her nostril distended itself, and she looked on with a proud smile, in full confidence that bold Lancelot would lose.

    Tiger-lilies 1867

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