highbrowed

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Max Rushden chairs proceedings, soliciting controversial, highbrowed and often amusing opinion from esteemed guests Jonathan Wilson, Jon Brodkin and ... eh, me.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2020

Slim, highbrowed Oswald H. Brownlee, research associate in economics at Iowa State College, thinks the answer to both questions is Yes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few weeks ago one Herbert Hyman Hornstein, highbrowed Brown University graduate in the class of 1932, was arrested in Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last they found him: benign, highbrowed Physicist William Vermillion Houston, 46, who last year succeeded famed Robert Andrews Millikan as chairman of the California Institute of Technology's division of physics, mathematics and electrical engineering.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is because Mr Arnold Bennett takes up to his public an attitude more highbrowed than I could imagine if I were writing a skit on his book.

From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel