elitism
noun
elit·ism
i-ˈlē-ˌti-zəm 
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Vox Lux appeared to exert a cultural imperative that The Brutalist neglects for repugnant elitism.
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Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
What might seem like an anti-elitist stance actually reinforces elitism.
—Aidé Acosta, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Critics say foodie culture can easily devolve into elitism.
—Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
The traditionalism of the American diplomat George Kennan, the theological realism of Reinhold Niebuhr, and the blatant elitism of the famed journalist Walter Lippmann did not at all seem that different from the general outlook that the Weimar émigrés Guilhot examines.
—Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
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Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
What might seem like an anti-elitist stance actually reinforces elitism.
—Aidé Acosta, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Critics say foodie culture can easily devolve into elitism.
—Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
The traditionalism of the American diplomat George Kennan, the theological realism of Reinhold Niebuhr, and the blatant elitism of the famed journalist Walter Lippmann did not at all seem that different from the general outlook that the Weimar émigrés Guilhot examines.
—Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
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“Elitism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elitism. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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