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UK
/kwˈiːnli/
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ADJECTIVE
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having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen
Rosetti's queenly portraits of women
clad in her queenly raiment
queenly propriety
How To Use queenly In A Sentence
- In either case, the story of queenly beauty would not be complete without the recognition that royal women have traditionally had far more chances than the average woman of actually being beautiful.
- She continues: ‘But the woman inside that queenly thing, the ego, was a different matter.’
- She even looked normal-looking (i.e. halo and queenly demeanor left at home) sources say.
- I have counted scores of these rich garlands, throughout which the queenly lotus always shone conspicuous, bespangling the surface of the water at the same time.
- Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
- The time he stood by the lake and gazed up at the mountains: the queenly, snowbound, glorious mountains, rose-tipped by sunrise... THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
- And his goodwill sunned her wild-grown beauty into majesty, into a kind of queenly richness. Imaginary Portraits
- Katherine rose and stood rocking it, soothing it -- a queenly young figure in her clinging gray and white draperies, which the instreaming sunshine touched, as she moved, to a delicate warmth of colour. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
- Ian Bostridge's Jupiter gradually unbends to deliver the sweetest soft legato, Patricia Bardon's Juno is hilariously fiery as the queenly betrayed wife, and Janis Kelly camps Iris up something terrible.
- Her queenly ambitions were fulfilled big time at their wedding. Times, Sunday Times