high+and+mighty
11high and mighty — ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as high and mighty, you disapprove of them because they consider themselves to be very important and are confident that they are always right. I think you re a bit too high and mighty yourself. Syn …
12high-and-mighty — adj informal Feeling more important or superior to someone else; too proud of yourself. John wasn t invited to the party, because he acted too high and mighty. Mary become high and mighty when she won the prize, and Joan would not go around with… …
13high and mighty — 1. adjective Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self important or self aggrandizing. Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, shes become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her. 2. noun A social or economic group wielding …
14high-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… …
15high and mighty — The high and mighty are the people with authority and power. If a person and condescending way. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
16high and mighty — 1. in a self important, grandiose, or arrogant manner: They talk high and mighty, but they owe everyone in town. 2. persons who are members of or identify with the higher social strata of society, esp. those who are powerful or arrogant. [1150… …
17high and mighty — better than other people, snobbish, upper crust After she married the judge, she acted kind of high and mighty …
18high and mighty — arrogant He has a high and mighty attitude to all of his employees …
19high and mighty — as if you are more important than other people. The members of the club all act high and mighty …
20high and mighty — informal he feels high and mighty just because he was lucky enough to keep his job Syn: self important, condescending, patronizing, pompous, disdainful, supercilious, superior, snobbish, snobby, haughty, conceited, above oneself; informal stuck… …
