high-and-mighty
Example Sentences
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He could be pretty high-and-mighty, and certainly not exactly a small-d democrat.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026
In taking the high-and-mighty down a peg, Reitman was reintroducing the sort of anti-establishment comedy that had long since vanished from Hollywood films.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2022
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
To “step out of the ignorance and blinders” of her upbringing, Schneider attended race dialogues and trainings such as Teaching for Change, but she warns other whites not to get high-and-mighty.
From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 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
