Synonyms for high-and-mighty
high-and-mighty

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1. autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptoryadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   overlooking, authoritarian, despotic, ascendant, distinguished, autocratic, dominating, commanding, magisterial, imposing, tyrannical, grand, bossy, tyrannic, ascendent, peremptory, dictatorial

   Antonyms:
   submissive

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1. Barry Mehler:

   If a professor comes in and he’s all high and mighty and using words they don’t understand — that doesn’t help them relax and think.

2. Barry Mehler:

   If a professor comes in and he’s all high and mighty and using words they do n’t understand — that does n’t help them relax and think.

3. Jeff Kingston:

   It shows that even the high and mighty are not above the law.

4. Rich Noyes:

   It seems high and mighty of the Huffington Post to decide who is and who isn't a real candidate when Donald Trump is leading in the Republican polls right now, they wouldn't have taken kindly if the rest of the media had treated Arianna Huffington's run for governor of California as a sideshow. I would say it's up to the voters to decide who is a real candidate and who is not.