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UK
/ɪlˈiːtɪst/
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[ US /eɪˈɫitɪst, ɪˈɫitɪst/ ]
[ US /eɪˈɫitɪst, ɪˈɫitɪst/ ]
NOUN
- someone who believes in rule by an elite group
How To Use elitist In A Sentence
- But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
- Perhaps tools like moviolas might have more efficiently weeded out the dabblers - it's hard to say since moviolas were part of a more elitist type of technology and denied many an opportunity.
- Pluralists have even tried to adapt Schumpeter's account, but have neglected his strong elitist account of input politics.
- Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning. Field & Stream
- “Elitist” to a GOP/Bush leg humping suckhole means “reader” .. Think Progress » Perry: Anyone Who’s Not A ‘Rank Political Hack’ Realizes That Bush Was A ‘Very, Very Good President’
- Obama is a stuffed-shirt, retrousse-nosed, po 'boy, the worst kind of elitist! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- There was a time when success was considered elitist and mediocrity was the norm.
- ACOSTA: During the primaries, Obama got tagged with the label elitist after a series of gaffes that suggested a lack of empathy for blue-collar voters. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
- Today such sentiments tend to be treated with scepticism, if not depicted as elitist.
- The elitist system owes far more to successful networking. Times, Sunday Times