regally
/ɹˈiɡəli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
Example Sentences
- "Mrs. Mountstuart seated herself regally "Ah, Mr. Dale!" she said, inclining to him. "Yes, dear Lady Busshe, there is a particle.""
- "His wife is very pretty. Not exactly regally lovely, of course—it wouldn’t do, I suppose, for a minister to have a regally lovely wife, because it might set a bad example."
- "Under the bare electric bulbs the horizontal purple and gold bands, the colours of the Seaboard Railroad, glowed regally on the streamlined locomotives."
- "But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away"
- "In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska."
- "[…]she has remained successful and beloved for the last half century, collecting a Lifetime Award Grammy, an honorary doctorate from Harvard and the icon’s prerogative to appear—regally chinoed—in a Gap ad."
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Inflected Forms
more regally (comparative)
most regally (superlative)