ADJECTIVE
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offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
an autocratic person
autocratic behavior
a rather aggressive and dominating character
managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
a bossy way of ordering others around
a swaggering peremptory manner
How To Use high-and-mighty In A Sentence
- Hyde Park, at that time of the day in general, was usually overpopulated with high-and-mighty lords and ladies prancing along its pathways for their ‘morning’ rides.
- We can easily imagine the high-and-mighty jack-in-office he must have been in Adolph's time. Richard Wagner
- They resented this ostent of entry; the men more sullenly than the women, some of whom in their hearts could not help admiring its high-and-mighty insolence. Lady Good-for-Nothing
- Then again, the guy in question has a few of the MN DNR high-and-mighty's in his pocket, so it's okay if he buys up 120 acres of state land (not federal, state) that adjoin his property, even though I haven't been able to find any records of that land being auctioned off ... On Stiffer Penalties To Battle Baiting
- Africans (so far as one can generalise) find the lampooning of the high-and-mighty hilarious. Times, Sunday Times