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High-and-mighty   /haɪ-ənd-mˈaɪti/   Listen
High-and-mighty

adjective
1.
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.  Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, magisterial, peremptory.  "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"






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"High-and-mighty" Quotes from Famous Books



... true," agreed Margolotte; "but, on the contrary, a servant with too much brains is sure to become independent and high-and-mighty and feel above her work. This is a very delicate task, as I said, and I must take care to give the girl just the right quantity of the right sort of brains. I want her to know just ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum



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