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LOFTY

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lofty adjectiv

1. (despre munţi, dimensiune, zbor etc. - nu despre oameni) foarte înalt.

2. (fig.) (despre un ideal etc.) înalt, nobil, ales; măreţ, splendid; impunător, dominant.

3. mândru, orgolios; semeţ; sfidător, arogant; îngâmfat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But never had he attempted to frame lofty thoughts in words.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The gentle and domestic manners it described, combined with lofty sentiments and feelings, which had for their object something out of self, accorded well with my experience among my protectors and with the wants which were for ever alive in my own bosom.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But when she sat down on the seat, she was a handsome lady still; and well I knew the bright eye with its lofty look, that had been a light in my very dreams at school.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I was an hour walking to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred and twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty that I could make no computation of their altitude.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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