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Synonyms & Antonyms of high horse
- I won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me
Synonyms for high horse
- 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
Words Related to high horse
- chest-thumping,
- inflation,
- self-assertion,
- side
- [chiefly British],
- snobbery,
- snobbishness,
- snobbism,
- snootiness
- boastfulness,
- bombast,
- braggadocio,
- bravado,
- strut,
- swagger,
- triumphalism,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory
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The first known use of high horse was in 1782
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