What is "brainy"

Usage examples of "brainy".

How many votes would you get for teffing those people down there that the Jew is brainier than they are, or that these immigrant Czechs and Hungarians are more hard working?

In ratio of skull-size to body-size, the bat was brainier than most monkeys.

Miss Caroline Carrock is sitting in her chair with her nose in a book, a fact which surprises me some because in my experience your brainier dolls are not such sweet Judys but this is a day for exceptions.

He wished that Valli were brainier, cooler, more like a man than a woman, but wishing was vain and stupid and he must make do.

Rather, as the old filth and gloomy sickness were cleared away, there would emerge a larger, stronger, older, brainier, better-nourished, better-oxygenated, more vital human type, able to eat and drink sanely, perfectly autonomous and well regulated in desires, going nude while attending tranquilly to duties, performing his fascinating and useful mental work.

There is no land on earth which has produced such quaint and curious characters as the great mountainous regions of the South, and yet no country has produced nobler or brainier men.

He knew very well that Stannard and the other people of his kind, back in Chicago, were all of them brainier than he was.

He was pleased to know that John Pope, perhaps the brainiest of the astronauts and one of the most experienced, was putting his training to use.

Bruce Cook, a slim, personable, slightly balding grown-up version of the brainiest kid you ever knew in high school, provided a contrast to Allan Ropper, with his more athletic bearing, stoic square-jawed countenance, and full head of graying hair.

Monk was rated, by those who should know, as one of the brainiest and most skilled chemists actively engaged in that profession.

It was further proof that in the person of Benedict Stark, The Shadow was fighting the brainiest rogue of his entire career.

I believe the men who reach high places in politics are, as a rule, the best and brainiest men in the land, and upon their shoulders rest the safety and well-being of the peace-loving, God-fearing millions.

I mean, you're bound to feel a bit brainy and blueblooded, a bit of an exquisite, when you walk through Forty-Second Street or Union Square, or even Sixth Avenue at noon, the office men, with lunchbox faces and truant eyes.

Her brainy, funky pal—God, Caitlyn had always been the coolest—had started talking to herself, then knocked her down.

In retrospect, Bart Digger would recall our collective anxiety on the third night of John Reddy's flight from the law when several of us brainy guys, members of the WHS chess team, sat up most of the night in the lot between Burnham Nurseries and Glen Creek, smoking and drinking beer.