Definition
Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self-important or self-aggrandizing.
In Context
- "The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons."
- "Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her."
- "Ponds drew a chair to the table and seated himself and poured Mrs Dibble a gin, saying solemnly, "Now then, Mrs Dibble, what's it all about?" "I'm upholding my rights agen that woman that's been coming the high and mighty over me like I ain't got the right to say a word in me own business.""
- "When Inanna returns she finds that Dumuzi has not been lamenting her but has been acting high and mighty in his seat of kingship."
- "For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of the law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing in the radiant heat of the Strong Man."