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

At three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Walter Stanley, 72, aquiline-faced, highbrowed British artist who, in a deerstalker cap, was the model for drawings of Sherlock Holmes done by his brother, Artist Sidney Stanley; in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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