highly-cultivated

The Vocabulary of a widely-diffused and highly-cultivated living language is not a fixed quantity circumscribed by definite limits.

No discernible circumference 2009

Called "Project Houdini," the campaign planned to used technology to vanish voters from its highly-cultivated contact lists in real time.

Pulling Off Houdini's Trick Scola, Nancy 2008

She had her own ideas; she had of old exposed a great many of them to Isabel, who knew also that under an appearance of extreme self-control her highly-cultivated friend concealed a rich sensibility.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the refinements of highly-cultivated society, the quaint peculiarities of ancient and local custom.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly-cultivated members of the community, except such of them as are willing to sacrifice their own opinions and modes of judgment, and become the servile mouthpieces of their inferiors in knowledge, seldom even offer themselves for Congress or the State

Representative Government 2002

Yasunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka.

Yasunari Kawabata - Biography 1968

Both have the most engaging politeness, and highly-cultivated minds.

The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" John Hicklin

The victims of the American slave-trade have been bred in a highly-cultivated community.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

The northern half is mostly a fine, open, undulating country of rich, highly-cultivated soil.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Brown University shared largely in the liberality of members of this highly-cultivated and progressive body.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various