high-and-mighty

2 definitions found

high-and-mighty - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

high-and-mighty - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  high-and-mighty
      adj 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" [syn: autocratic, bossy,
             dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial,
             peremptory]