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Very superior in air or in attitude; contemptuous of or elevated above the average or ordinary.

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Usage examples (15)
  • Polly her most "toploftical stare," as the girls called it.
  • Jim was very toploftical to Miss Lily for several days.
  • It had a head that was a cross between an intelligent antelope and a rather toploftical baby rat.
  • I suppose they're well enough, but their pictures look a little toploftical, and I'm not over fond of that kind.
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