high-and-mighty (adj.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: autocratic , bossy , dominating , magisterial , peremptory ]

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