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high-and-mighty

hig·hand·mighty

uncommon

adjective

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”

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