1. authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing

expecting unquestioning obedience

Example Sentences:
'the timid child of authoritarian parents'
'insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter'

Synonyms

• authoritarian
• dictatorial

2. disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Example Sentences:
'some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines'
'haughty aristocrats'
'his lordly manners were offensive'
'walked with a prideful swagger'
'very sniffy about breaches of etiquette'
'his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air'
'a more swaggering mood than usual'

Synonyms

• disdainful
• haughty
• imperious
• lordly
• prideful
• sniffy
• supercilious
• swaggering