elitist
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But some project supporters call Keller and other critics elitist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Ahead of a show at the city's Opera House this month, McLean told BBC Manchester about his experience as a black male ballet dancer from Moss Side plunged into the "elitist" world of professional ballet.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
“He was not exclusive and he was not an elitist, “ Savannah said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
And they become increasingly sympathetic to southern planters who complain about Black labor, and they seem to adopt their elitist attitudes.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
We’d need to think about how they’d used whatever opportunities life had afforded them rather than measuring them simply by how far they’d made it up an elitist academic ladder.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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