high-and-mighty
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He could be pretty high-and-mighty, and certainly not exactly a small-d democrat.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
But in both fields, one must live up to their high-and-mighty ambitions, or risk being laughed out of the ring.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
Another high-and-mighty Oscar-nominated sports drama—this time about baseball— that Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and company somehow turned into both an analytical deep-dive and a fine piece of cinema.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 19, 2020
They assume — not everybody, right — but they assume that you’re some kind of high-and-mighty person.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2019
The nation of France, especially, has gotten all high-and-mighty about threatening to remove their associations from South Africa.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
And in its high and mighty position, it became an object of ridicule.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
It was there that he began mixing with the high and mighty of St Petersburg and then Russia.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2023
"If a professor comes in and he’s all high and mighty and using words they don’t understand — that doesn’t help them relax and think," he said of students.
From Fox News ● Jan. 26, 2022
“If a professor comes in and he’s all high and mighty and using words they don’t understand — that doesn’t help them relax and think,” he said of students.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
“But you and I could play a little trick or two on him, so that he would not be so high and mighty in future. So that next time he will listen to his brother.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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