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High-and-mighty

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Adjective

1. autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory

offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

Example Sentences:
'an autocratic person'
'autocratic behavior'
'a bossy way of ordering others around'
'a rather aggressive and dominating character'
'managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way'
'a swaggering peremptory manner'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


High-and-mighty

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informal
arrogant
adjective
1. 
If you describe someone as high and mighty, you disapprove of them because they consider themselves to be very important and are confident that they are always right.
I think you're a bit too high and mighty yourself.
noun
2.  the high and mighty

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High-and-mighty

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Informal
arrogant; haughty

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High-and-mighty

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adj.
Marked by arrogance; haughty and overbearing.

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