HIGH-AND-MIGHTY

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : autocratic , bossy , dominating , magisterial , peremptory

  His peremptory manner offended all his peers. -added by naila_inlas

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