high-brow
Example Sentences
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From high brow gourmands to picky grandmothers, these beauties are nothing if not universally appreciated.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2024
To most high brow critics, an outstanding novel is one of such depressing complexity no one wants to read it.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2018
Slim, with a high brow that he often furrows, he countered the charges against him in grave, deliberate English.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 7, 2016
Not all the chosen conversationalists are quite so high brow:
From US News • Jan. 4, 2016
He was tall and erect, with a broad, high brow, and eyes beaming with fondness upon the fair face so confidingly upturned to his own.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
