brainy

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Schooled in crime by Arnold Rothstein, he was known as a brainy tough guy.

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  • Schooled in crime by Arnold Rothstein, he was known as a brainy tough guy. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Coltrane is in his serio-comic element as the brainy, sharp-witted forensic psychologist Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald. —  The Seattle Times
  • The IT sector has an upper caste aura-brainy, requiring good education, English language-and continues upper caste privileges, now in the knowledge economy. —  Trade Observatory
  • Lost - brainy, challenging, locked into an evolving, serialized story - is a tough choo-choo to jump aboard if you're not already up to speed. —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
  • - Seeing Red (NBC): A brainy, oddball cop solves crimes by talking to the deceased victims. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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/ˈbreɪni/
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