high and mighty
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high and mighty
adjective higher and mightier · more high and mighty · highest and mightiest · most high and mighty
- Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self-important or self-aggrandizing. The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons.
- A courtesy title applied to members of the States General of the Dutch Republic. To the High and Migthie Lords States-Generall at The Haghe. (…) Most High and Mightie Lords, After I had my dispatch from the king of Barbary Muley Sidan, the same day I was to embarke, came to me the alkaid of Saffia with a packet of letters directed to Your High and Mightie Lords, whearin one (a
noun high and mighties
- 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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adj overbearingly arrogant
| Русский | великий и могучий velikij i mogučij |
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adj courtesy title
| Français | haut et puissant |
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| Deutsch | hochmögend |
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