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HIGH-AND-MIGHTY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Example:
a swaggering peremptory manner
Synonyms:
autocratic; bossy; dominating; high-and-mighty; magisterial; peremptory
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Similar:
domineering (tending to domineer)