high and mighty

Definitions

1. 1

   Overbearingly arrogant

   Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self-important or self-aggrandizing.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A courtesy title applied to members of the States General of the Dutch Republic.

   • High and Mighty Lords, My lords, I could not omit adviſing of your high and mighty lordſhips, that here arrived two ambaſſadors from the great duke of Muſcovy, who have yet had no audience, it being but four days ſince.
3. 3

   An arrogant or self-important person.

   • My connection with these high-and-mighties ought to be purely professional, and so, in a manner, it is, but on the top of it I find myself drawn into a full-blooded, old haunted house mystery that takes me clean out of my depth.

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