black-robe disease
n.— «Mike has a better-than-the-rest-of-you attitude.…He’s a pompous elitist with black-robe disease. He’s got a God complex.» —“4 judges opposed for criminal courts” by John Makeig Houston Chronicle (Texas) Sept. 30, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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