high-and-mighty

high-and-mighty
adj
1. haughty, arrogant, excessively proud, self-important, presumptuous, fastuous, proud, vainglorious, overconfident, overweening; conceited, snobbish, Inf. stuck-up, Inf. uppish, Inf. uppity, on one's high horse; pompous, egotistic, lofty, Inf. toplofty; condescending, disdainful, supercilious, cavalier, contemptuous, scornful.
2. affected, showy, flashy, ostentatious, Inf. hoity-toity, peacockish, foppish, dandified.
3. imperious, overbearing, domineering, highhanded; dictatorial, despotic, authoritative, dogmatic, magisterial.
4. brazen, impudent, insolent, defiant, rude, audacious, impertinent; swaggering, blustering, Inf. pushy, bumptious, self-assertive, self-assured, self-assuming.
5. excessive, exaggerated, immoderate, intemperate, extravagant; high-flown, Inf. highfalutin, preposterous, unconscionable, disproportionate; unreasonable, undue, unfounded, uncalled-for, unwarranted.

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