Antonyms for kingly
ˈkɪŋ liking·ly

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1. kingly

   Royal denotes that which actually belongs or pertains to a monarch; the royal residence is that which the king occupies, royal raiment that which the king wears. Regal denotes that which in outward state is appropriate for a king; a subject may assume regal magnificence in residence, dress, and equipage. Kingly denotes that which is worthy of a king in personal qualities, especially of character and conduct; as, a kingly bearing; a kingly resolve. Princely is especially used of treasure, expenditure, gifts, etc., as princely munificence, a princely fortune, where regal could not so well be used and royal would change the sense. The distinctions between these words are not absolute, but the tendency of the best usage is as here suggested.

   Antonyms:
   beggarly, contemptible, mean, poor, servile, slavish, vile

   Synonyms:
   august, kinglike, magnificent, majestic, munificent, princely, regal, royal

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1. kingly

   Synonyms:
   royal, regal, imperial, magnificent, noble

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1. kingly, kinglikeadjective

   having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king

   "symbolizing kingly power"; "the murder of his kingly guest"

   Antonyms:
   lowborn

   Synonyms:
   kinglike

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1. kinglyadjective

   Antonyms:
   servile, mean, abject, slavish, unkingly

   Synonyms:
   royal, regal, monarchical, sovereign, august, majestic, grand

How to use kingly in a sentence?

1. Abraham Lincoln:

   The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

2. Samual Rutherford:

   I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

3. Omar Khayyam:

   This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

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