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high-and-mighty meaning and definition
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Definition of high-and-mighty (adjective)
- offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
- "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"
- synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, magisterial, peremptory
Source: Princeton University Wordnet