Crossword Clue: Straining to be highbrow
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- ___-crafty
- A bit pretentious
- A little too much
- Attempting to be esthetic.
- Aesthetic
- Aesthetic, to a fault
- Aesthetic to a fault
- Aesthetically pretentious
- Affected, in a way
- Affected
- Affectedly aesthetic
- Affectedly creative
- Affectedly cultural
- Affectedly cultured.
- Affectedly cultured
- Affectedly esthetic
- Affectedly flamboyant
- Affectedly ornate
- Affectedly ostentatious
- Avant-garde
- Bohemi-an
- Bohemian.
- Bohemian, in a sense
- Bohemian
- Hipsteresque, in a way
- Fancified, say
- Into mixed media, maybe
- Into shootings and public hangings?
- Into underground stuff
- Hoity-toity
- Decidedly not lowbrow
- Feigning interest in a Picasso, e.g.
- Full of pretensions
- Conspicuously fond of Erte, say
- Conspicuously stylish
- Chi-chi
- Chichi
- Dilettantish
- Hanging out in galleries, say
- Flamboyant
- Having a goatee and beret, say
- Having artistic interest
- Flaunting bogus taste
- Creative
- Esthetically too-too
- Imitative of fine creations
- Given to pretension
- Given to showy affectation
- Excessively stylish
- Culturally affected
- Culturally pretentious
- Culturally showy
- Cultured
- For the wine-and-cheese crowd, perhaps
- For the wine-and-cheese crowd, stereotypically
- For the wine-and-cheese crowd
- High concept
- High-concept
- High-falutin'
- High-flown
- High-sounding
- Highbrow, in a way
- Highbrow
- Highfalutin'
- Highfalutin, perhaps
- Highfalutin
- Too stylish, maybe
- Too stylish, perhaps
- Too-too
- Keen on cultural matters
- Keen on paintings etc
- Pseudo-aesthetic
- Pseudo-cultured
- Pseudo-esthetic
- Pseudo-sophisticated
- Pseudo-stylish
- Pseudocultured
- Pseudoesthetic
- Pseudosophisticated
- Like gallery attendees, maybe
- Like Garfunkel's pretentious collectibles?
- Like Greenwich Village
- Ostentatious, in a way
- Ostentatious in manner
- Ostentatious
- Ostentatiously esthetic
- Like kitsch
- Like Manhattan's East Village
- Like many a foreign film
- Like many a student film
- Like many experimental films
- Like many gallerygoers
- Like many hipsters
- Like many independent films
- Like many indie films
- Like many indies
- Like many modern black-and-white films
- Like many student films
- Like Montmartre
- Straining to be highbrow
- Overdecorated
- Overly highbrow
- Overly ornamental
- Overly orrnamented
- Overly pretentious
- Overly stylish, maybe
- Overly stylish
- Overly stylized
- Very Soho, say
- Very Soho
- Like some Chelsea events
- Like some Chelsea galleries
- Like some craft show displays
- Like some experimental films
- Like some films and this puzzle
- Like some gallery patrons
- Like some Greenwich Village groups
- Like some indie films
- Like some indie movies
- Like some mannerisms
- Like some museumgoers
- Putting on airs
- Like some salon conversation
- Like some SoHo galleries
- Like some SoHo parties
- Like some SoHo shops
- Like stereotypical Chelsea galleries
- Painterish
- Painterlike
- Wine-and-cheese-crowd approved
- Stylistically pretentious
- Stylized to a fault
- Like the SoHo crowd
- Like this puzzle, in a way
- Visually pretentious
- Like would-be bohemians
- Sooo SoHo
- With aesthetic pretense
- With pretentious display
- La-di-da
- La-di-dah
- Oh so creative
- Rather pretentious
- Mil. group
- Pretending interest in a Picasso, e.g.
- Pretention in art
- Pretentious, in a way
- Pretentious, like some indie films
- Pretentious, or phonetically the two letters that get separated in this puzzle's theme
- Pretentious, perhaps
- Pretentious to a fault
- Pretentious
- Pretentiously creative
- Pretentiously cultured
- Pretentiously esthetic
- Pretentiously showy
- Pretentiously styled
- Pretentiously stylish
- Like a dilettante
- Like a gallery crowd
- Like a hipster, perhaps
- Like a pretentious museumgoer
- More than creative
- Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses
- Making a point of appearing interested in painting, sculpture etc
- Showily imitative
- Showily stylish
- Showing signs of culture
- Warholian
- Showy and stylish
- Showy, in a way
- Showy
- Trying to seem highbrow
- Theatrical
- Superficially cultured
- Superficially highbrow
- Uber-pretentious
- Spuriously cultural
- Spuriously cultured
- Tinhorn
- So-o-o-o SoHo
- So SoHo
Recent Usage of Straining to be highbrow in Crossword Puzzles
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Here are all of the places we know of that have used Straining to be highbrow in their crossword puzzles recently:
- Universal Crossword - Dec. 23, 2015
- Universal Crossword - Feb. 24, 2015
- Pat Sajak Code Letter - Dec. 30, 2011
- Universal Crossword - Jan. 11, 2010
- USA Today - Nov. 2, 2009
