as in aristocratic
being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
the complacent, elitist attitude of the members at that suburban country club
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Recent Examples of elitist
Joe Kinsey Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
The market is opaque and elitist.
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Magnus Resch,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
18 Sep. 2025
And anyone who thinks of modern Democrats, from Texas or anywhere else, as a collection of elitists or urban snobs would likely not be referring to the 35-year-old Scudder.
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John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Adjective
What started as a discussion on trans in sports eventually turned into a war of words with Cross acting as an elitist expert on this subject because his 8-year-old daughter has two trans friends at school, including one who turned trans at age 3.
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Joe Kinsey Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
The market is opaque and elitist.
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Magnus Resch,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
In a Fox News interview, Carr portrayed Kimmel as an elitist and his own interests as those of the community.
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Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
18 Sep. 2025
And anyone who thinks of modern Democrats, from Texas or anywhere else, as a collection of elitists or urban snobs would likely not be referring to the 35-year-old Scudder.
—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The Sound and The Fury Told by four narrators in a stream of consciousness writing style, this 1929 story describes the downfall of a wealthy Southern aristocratic family, the Compsons.
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Because of previous demand, over 20,000 people had been employed in buckle manufacture in the Birmingham area, but when this aristocratic fashion suddenly collapsed in 1786 on the eve of the French Revolution, their trade collapsed along with it.
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Those snobs say the studio audience or, heaven forbid, the laugh track, do all the work.
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I'mPhaedra Trethan, a pizza snob from New Jersey who doesn't mind paying more for a good pie.
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The passage is incoherent, yet, in conflating progressive reform with arrogant blind faith, it is perfectly suited to Vance’s cynical conservatism.
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To no one’s surprise, Bonnie is immediately transfixed by her Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee, whose arrogant smarm effectively threads the needle between Maya Hawke’s Anxiety and Regina George’s everything else).
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The stories focused on portraying her as a calculating social climber who only pursued the president’s oldest son to gain access to his wealth, power and celebrity, the Daily Mail also said.
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Set in 1969 Palm Beach, the Apple TV series follows Kristen Wiig’s Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, a spry social climber eager to infiltrate high society.
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Storied animation producer Bonnie Arnold gave short shrift to those who are snobbish about her beloved discipline at Annecy today.
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Hytes, Season 13’s winner Symone, and Season 15’s Marcia Marcia Marcia, who is credited in the film by her real name Marty Lauter, play a trio of snobbish train attendants on the luxurious Glamazonian Hyper Speed Rail.
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“Elitist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elitist. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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