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Main Entry:	elitist [ih-lee-tist ey-lee‐] Show IPA/ɪˈlitɪst eɪˈli‐/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	snob
Synonyms:	highbrow, name-dropper, pompous ass, pompous person, social climber, stiff, stuffed shirt

Main Entry:	uppish
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	snobbish
Synonyms:	aloof, arrogant, condescending, egotistic, elitist, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-flown, high-hat, ostentatious, overbearing, patronizing, persnickety*, pompous, pretentious, putting on airs, remote, sniffy, snippy, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, swanky, tony, uppity

* = informal/non-formal usage
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Example Sentences

Wal-Mart will single-handedly upend the argument that organic food is elitist.

Some argue that this is alright and that, ultimately higher education is elitist by nature.

Trusting policy making to those who might know what they are talking about is such an elitist prejudice.

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Wal-Mart will single-handedly upend the argument that organic food is elitist.

Some argue that this is alright and that, ultimately higher education is elitist by nature.

Trusting policy making to those who might know what they are talking about is such an elitist prejudice.

In real life, he was also a pampered aristocrat bent on retaining his elitist standing.

To do otherwise would be elitist and therefore wrong.

The setup process is clean, easy and oozes elitist style.

We have standards, but it's not elitist in that way.

How hopelessly effete and elitist an intellectual approach becomes in such a setting.

But governments are neither elitist nor not elitist, surely.

To say it's for the experts only would be a little bit elitist.

There must have been a coup at the magazine, with these arrogant, elitist climate nazis taking over.

Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.

Its not that its condescension and elitist prejudices are in any way striking, because they are in fact more and more commonplace.

Again, this is nothing more than a bunch of elitist thugs who feel they have the moral duty to dictate you how you live.

Maybe that was the idea: an elitist move to hoard the short profits.

Please spare us this insipid intellectual elitist posturing.

It has, he says, sometimes been too elitist and top-down.

If this is life in a superpower economy then you can take your globalist theories and blow them out of your elitist ears.

It's not elitist to prefer organic food, any more than it's elitist to prefer healthy, whole foods instead of mcdonald's.

If you do so, someone will say you are elitist or will over generalize your.

The elitist researcher had submitted a report to a top scientific journal and the scientist he snubbed was asked to review it.

When they give interviews, they tend to address an elitist audience.

Also, there is an elitist point of view that tends to flow within the academy.

Newspapers denounce privacy injunctions as an elitist tool open only to the wealthy.

There is an inherent elitist selection bias among owners/controllers of these corporations.

In part, this was a reaction to the elitist businessmen.

Yes but all those rich folks live in the elitist coastal cities.

The financial crisis was an elitist game that went wrong.

Seems to me, the older a society, the more fences go up and the more elitist and corrupt it becomes.

It's elitist and short-sighted to think that everyone has the same goals you.

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