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Definition of Highbrows
1. highbrow [n] - See also: highbrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highbrows
Literary usage of Highbrows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1922)
"The Moon of Difficulties By Den* Beard THE tenderfoot goes to the Almanac for
the names of the days, weeks and months, the Almanac goes to the highbrows for ..."
2. National Park Service: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Lands, 64th (1916)
"I do not take the view that I hear some do in regard to an automobile road crossing
the continent, that it is only highbrows who travel, that it is only ..."
3. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"We believe that if Mr. Carnegie and his hired highbrows will come down from their
telescope and will (just with their plain eyes open) go walking around ..."
4. My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1922)
"He came to me one day and said: "Our organization has lost the confidence of
the 'highbrows.' They have not a great many votes, but their names carry weight ..."
5. The Editorial: A Study in Effectiveness of Writing by Leon Nelson Flint (1920)
"But the iceman and the milkman and- the club women and the highbrows, who hate
dogs, couldn't understand the loyalty that bound the Bowers dog to the Bowers ..."
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