Regally

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.

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.

Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.