They behaved aristocratically. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : aristocratic bearing; aristocratic snobbishness. From Dictionary.com.
I believe he is what 's called aristocratically connected -- the younger brother of a lord, or something of that sort. From Wordnik.com. [Confidence] Reference
The first societies governed themselves aristocratically. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Contract] Reference
Seine, not at all aristocratically, from the Pont de la Concorde. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She already had one, a very old and aristocratically superior one. From Wordnik.com. [Women Beware Women] Reference
Tibetan states differed strongly from the aristocratically organized. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
There it was; not only an unusual name, but an aristocratically hyphenated one as well. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Ismal noted that the marquess was tall, fair, and aristocratically handsome? and he didn't belong here. From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
Happily, the aristocratically mannered dancers, admittedly used to grander spaces, took the limits in their stride. From Wordnik.com. [A Close Up View of the Kirov] Reference
We felt somewhat humiliated when he was ignominiously turned off the car, while the black ex-slaves on board smiled aristocratically. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Wavy jet-black hair and aristocratically Spanish features belie the 44 years and more than 50 corridas of Juan Hermoso de Valenciana. From Wordnik.com. [There is no such thing as a bullfight] Reference
And when I was going to say, “We cannot possibly hope for such an honor,” he suddenly went down on his knees, and so aristocratically!. From Wordnik.com. [The Inspector-General] Reference
The flawless perfection of the Parnassians -- of Heredia's sonnets -- is nowhere approached in the less aristocratically exclusive poetry of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
At length he gained admission in his turn; and, full of nobility and choler, he asked, rather aristocratically, why he had been kept waiting so long?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828] Reference
He was an unmanageable father, a farrago of peremptory orders one minute, sly and wheedling the next, lofty and aristocratically detached the minute after that. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The Roman tombola should be seen in the Piazza Navona democratically; in the Villa Borghese, if not aristocratically at least middle classically, or bourgeois-istically. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs. Raby, religious. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
Or planting them upon inheritance, whether aristocratically as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
The more aristocratically oriented Southern culture was demolished. From Wordnik.com. [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference
The three large and aristocratically ugly mansions of Don Roberto Yorba. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
Many of them live in houses, and that very respectably, nay, even aristocratically. From Wordnik.com. [The Gypsies] Reference
Then, when she walks, it is inconceivable how aristocratically she rustles, -- especially on a Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
Here are poor and starving artists come to dine aristocratically on seventy-five centimes -- fifteen cents. From Wordnik.com. [Europe After 8:15] Reference
And then Irving Carter, painter, millionaire, etc., felt a warm flush rise to his aristocratically pale face. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
I cannot kill them; though flaming is their blood's rebuke, it is aristocratically as well as theologically blue. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
Said to be aristocratically connected, he was the admiration of all and the darling of the young ladies of Derby. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland]
` ` What common looking people, '' said Mrs. Rhinelander, surveying the crowd aristocratically with her lorgnette. From Wordnik.com. [A Parody Outline of History] Reference
I never saw her look more aristocratically hideous in my life than she looked at the Rajah's garden-party yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamp in the Desert] Reference
Don't hold your head too aristocratically high, mother, till we are quite certain which way the wind really does blow. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
Peter and all the rest of my dear friends who were then in New York having the times of their aristocratically rustic lives. From Wordnik.com. [Over Paradise Ridge A Romance] Reference
Charles, I experienced one of the all-time aristocratically classic pairings of Western civilization, Sauternes and foie gras. From Wordnik.com. [Do Bianchi] Reference
His hands were very white, and -- according to his own notion of the size of hands as indicating birth -- aristocratically small. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
This made me think her, for a moment, positively disagreeable; delicate and proper and rather aristocratically dry as she sat there. From Wordnik.com. [The Author Of Beltraffio] Reference
“He really is the outside of enough, '' said Glabrio now, in tones both forceful and aristocratically languid. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
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