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high horse

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Synonyms and Antonyms of high horse

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 of high horse

arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, consequence, haughtiness, hauteur, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, masterfulness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense (or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, self-importance, superciliousness, superiority

Words Related to high horse

authoritativeness, bossiness, dominance, high-handedness

condescension, disdain, scorn

chest-thumping, inflation, self-assertion, snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism, snootiness

attitude, cheek, cheekiness, impertinence, impudence, sauciness

boastfulness, bombast, bravado, strut, swagger, triumphalism, vaingloriousness, vainglory

cockiness, 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, vanity

superiority complex

Near Antonyms of high horse

bashfulness, demureness, retiringness, shyness

diffidence, self-distrust, self-doubt, timidity, timidness

lowliness, meekness, mousiness, passiveness, passivity, submissiveness

quietness, reserve, reservedness

Antonyms of high horse

humility, modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness

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