high-and-mighty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
    magisterial; peremptory; dominating; autocratic; bossy.
    • 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

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