haughtiness &c adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance†; domineering &c v.;
tyranny &c 739.
impertinence; sauciness &c adj.; flippancy, dicacity†, petulance,
procacity†, bluster; swagger, swaggering &c v.; bounce; terrorism.
assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation.
impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass;
shamelessness &c adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass.
assumption of infallibility.
saucebox &c (blusterer) 887 [Obs.].
V. be insolent &c adj.; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself
airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear &c (affirm) 535; rap
out oaths; roister.
arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty,
give an inch and take an ell.
domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en
bas [Fr.], regarder de haut en bas [Fr.]; exact; snub, huff., beard,
fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat,
intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride
roughshod over.
out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen†, outbrave†; stare out of
countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to
suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big
looks, act the grand seigneur [Fr.]; mount the high horse, ride the
high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.
tempt Providence, want snuffing.
Adj. insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial,
arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious,
overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.
flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward,
impertinent, malapert.
precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.
bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng†, unabashed; brazen,
boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.
impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care,
rollicking; jaunty, janty†; roistering, blustering, hectoring,
swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury
[Macbeth].
Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra [Lat.].
Phr. one's bark being worse than his bite; beggars mounted run their
horse to death [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat.]
[Plutarch]; wagahai wa [Jap.] (expressing superiority) [Jap.Tr.].