High-and-mighty

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  high-and-mighty \high-and-mighty\ a.
     conceited and arrogant; imperious.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  high-and-mighty
       adj : 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}]