elitism
noun
elit·ism
i-ˈlē-ˌti-zəm 
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But white pants bring with them a host of associations and preconceptions about elitism, privilege and, in the case of boating, retrograde Boston Brahmin values, that anyone considering a pair of white jeans may want to consider.
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Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
In a culture more terrified of elitism than philistinism, Gulman creates brainy, word-drunk art that aims high.
—The Learning Network, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Less elitism and more embracing a wider range of talent is what my point of view looks like.
—Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
West’s hellfire-and-locust symbolism parodied biblical judgment, but such shame no longer applies to current secular permissiveness or the progressive ideology in Marxist writer Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990), famous for its subversive condemnation of Los Angeles’s capitalist elitism.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
In a culture more terrified of elitism than philistinism, Gulman creates brainy, word-drunk art that aims high.
—The Learning Network, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Less elitism and more embracing a wider range of talent is what my point of view looks like.
—Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
West’s hellfire-and-locust symbolism parodied biblical judgment, but such shame no longer applies to current secular permissiveness or the progressive ideology in Marxist writer Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990), famous for its subversive condemnation of Los Angeles’s capitalist elitism.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Elitism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elitism. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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