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high horsenoun an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claimsI won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, consequence, haughtiness, hauteur, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, masterfulness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, self-consequence, self-importance, superciliousness, superiority, toploftiness authoritativeness, bossiness, bowwow, brag, dominance, high-handednesscondescension, disdain, scornchest-thumping, inflation, self-assertion, side(chiefly British), snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism, snootinessattitude, cheek, cheekiness, impertinence, impudence, saucinessboastfulness, bombast, braggadocio, bravado, strut, swagger, triumphalism, vaingloriousness, vainglorycockiness, complacence, conceit, egoism, egotism, pride, pridefulness, self-assumption, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-content, self-contentment, self-opinion, self-partiality, self-satisfaction, smugness, swelled head, vanitysuperiority complex humility, modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness bashfulness, demureness, retiringness, shynessdiffidence, self-distrust, self-doubt, timidity, timidnesslowliness, meekness, mousiness, passiveness, passivity, submissivenessquietness, reserve, reservedness in 1782 |