Synonyms of high horse

high horse

noun

as in arrogance

an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims

I won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogance
• superiority
• attitude
• bumptiousness
• disdain
• consequence
• masterfulness
• self-consequence
• pretence
• toploftiness
• imperiousness
• peremptoriness
• hauteur
• assumption
• loftiness
• superciliousness
• pretense
• haughtiness
• pompousness
• presumptuousness
• huffiness
• pretension
• lordliness
• pomposity
• dominance
• self-importance
• pridefulness
• vanity
• pretentiousness
• vaingloriousness
• pride
• high-handedness
• inflation
• side
• swelled head
• snobbishness
• bossiness
• snobbery
• snobbism
• condescension
• scorn
• vainglory
• authoritativeness
• snootiness
• superiority complex
• bravado
• brag
• bowwow
• swagger
• self-assertion
• chest-thumping
• boastfulness
• sauciness
• cheekiness
• cheek
• impudence
• triumphalism
• smugness
• self-assumption
• egoism
• strut
• self-contentment
• impertinence
• self-satisfaction
• self-content
• self-opinion
• cockiness
• self-centeredness
• self-complacency
• braggadocio
• self-partiality
• egotism
• bombast
• self-conceit
• complacence
• conceit

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humility
• modesty
• unpretentiousness
• shyness
• bashfulness
• unassumingness
• demureness
• diffidence
• timidity
• meekness
• passivity
• retiringness
• lowliness
• passiveness
• submissiveness
• reserve
• self-doubt
• quietness
• mousiness
• timidness
• self-distrust
• reservedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of high horse

The novel endures thanks to its keen understanding that many people in this town see movies as a metaphor, a proxy for other forms of currency: the tax break, the blind item, the call sheet, the high horse. —Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024

Jayden, continuing to gallop on his high horse, has trusted himself as the saviour of their relationship and by proxy, Tori. —Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2024

Come down off your high horse and do right by the legal, taxpaying citizens of your city! —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2024

But not enough to allow the Beavers to get on a high horse. —oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023