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  • adjective Befitting a patrician.

Etymologies

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patrician +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Other than walking around and smiling in a good natured, patricianly manner, he doesn't seem to have any connection at all with normal middle class people.

    TV Review: Tory Toff by Peter Hitchens 2007

  • This explains the litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite, neoclassical, which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after his name.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Which last, though blue beyond all shadow of doubt, yet manifested itself in divers quite ordinary ways as, -- in complexions of cream and roses; in skins sallow and wrinkled; in noses haughtily Roman or patricianly Greek, in noses mottled and unclassically uplifted; in black hair, white hair, yellow, brown, and red hair; -- such combinations as he had seen many and many

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • With a patricianly beautiful wife whose scholarship matched his own and whose frigidity allowed him to indulge a perilous penchant for undergraduate girls, he couldn’t lose.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • Ph. D, author, and a man of great note in his own mind, he patricianly attempts to lectures us all about his vainglorious sense of political civility, use of common day technology (e.g.,

    GraniteGrok Skip 2010

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