elitist
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“It seems elitist maybe,” Flanders added, but the small island absorbs a “crush” of people in the summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Historian Swapna Liddle acknowledged the club's elitist origins, but said she would have preferred efforts to reform the institution rather than shutting it down.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
They’re insincere and elitist and out of touch and smug in many respects, from the perspective of a young man.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
OpenAI’s Altman said Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads illustrate how it is elitist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
“Forgive me, but I should think the elitist values of such a man would be repugnant to you,” he said.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
While elitists criticize and theorize about the poor, Robert L. Woodson Sr. looked for successes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Others labeled the data center’s opponents, including groups like CFFC, as anti-development elitists who intimidated the project’s supporters into silence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
In a land of vinyl sickos, Spotify normies, and Winamp elitists, Wade Nixon, the man behind the incredibly popular YouTube channel “DankPods,” stands alone with a pair of MP3-playing Oakley sunglasses.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022
Dad complained to Fire Station No. 70, stationed beside the creek, and the elitists soon learned a lesson: No matter how much you are worth, you can’t block a county flood-control channel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
It would become a corporate-run dystopia, an overpriced theme park for wealthy elitists.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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