Definitions
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- adjective highly cultured or educated
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Examples
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Remember, the fish don't give a hoot about all the highbrowed intellectual talk concerning flyfishing.
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Remember, the fish don't give a hoot about all the highbrowed intellectual talk concerning flyfishing.
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Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award!
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No more discussions of art with an arrogant, highbrowed snob who could not resist falling into full lecture mode at the drop of a museum catalog.
Sharp Edges Jayne Ann Krentz 1998
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He had never liked the highbrowed, affected, arty type, anyway.
Sharp Edges Jayne Ann Krentz 1998
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I believe you agreed with me at the time and later went on to imply that you thought I was an arrogant, condescending, highbrowed snob.
Sharp Edges Jayne Ann Krentz 1998
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He was highbrowed and handsome, with a thin wisp of beard and a tiny moustache.
The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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He was highbrowed and handsome, with a thin wisp of beard and a tiny moustache.
The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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So argued the highbrowed philosophers of Greece and
The Vital Message Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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But even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South
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