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high-and-mighty

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high-and-might·y (hn-mt)
adj.
Marked by arrogance; haughty and overbearing.
high and mighty adv. & n.
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Adj.1.high-and-mighty - 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"
autocratic, bossy, peremptory, magisterial, dominating
domineering - tending to domineer
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Chang, a lawyer who worked for two decades in China, has written an impassioned book that rests on penetrating diagnoses and old-fashioned gumshoe reporting, conducting interviews with everyone from the high-and-mighty to the common peasant.
THE COMING COLLAPSE OF CHINA by Heilbrunn, Jacob / Washington Monthly
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