loftily

" Not a very convincing witness." said Fudge loftily.

" Really, " Hermione said loftily as they passed the girls, now squabbling over the lipstick.

" I think you've got enough to be getting on with at the moment, " she said loftily.

" The wonders of the monarchy, " Henry says loftily.

" They're awful, " Henry says loftily. " I'm going to catch an exotic plague."

" Well, not if you don't want to tell me any more, " she said loftily, though she was burning for further information.

Mary was in a grassy corner of the garden, where there was a swing loftily hung between two pear-trees.

She has acted loftily and rightly, and it is like her gentle modesty to say that we think too highly of her.

Sending in an application to the State, he explained loftily to Isak—" to the Ministry of the Interior, you understand. Yes, I've no end of things to look after all at once" .

He had put it loftily enough in talking to his mother; he could get a better position in town than the one he had; could go as clerk to one of the higher officials.