What is the meaning of high-and-mighty?

adjective

  • Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
    • usage: "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"
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