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elitist

/ih-lee-tist ey-lee‐/US // ɪˈli tɪst eɪˈli‐ //

精英主义者,精英分子,精英派,精英主义

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : considered superior by others or by themselves, as in intellect, talent, power, wealth, or position in society: elitist country clubbers who have theirs and don't care about anybody else.
    • : catering to or associated with an elitist class, its ideologies, or its institutions: Even at such a small, private college, Latin and Greek are under attack as too elitist.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person having, thought to have, or professing superior intellect or talent, power, wealth, or membership in the upper echelons of society: He lost a congressional race in Texas by being smeared as an Eastern elitist.
    • : a person who believes in the superiority of an elitist class.

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Examples

  • Bates found an FBI agent who was less elitist and talked to him about trying to track the other ones — and, hopefully, the kidnappers themselves.

  • In fact, the school has been criticized for allegedly being elitist and designed exclusively for the offspring of well-off digital nomads.

  • She’s not like this high-up, elitist person that they try to portray her to be.

  • It is also a courageous book because it obliges Nemerov to indulge a discourse that some readers may find elitist.

  • Throughout the Senate campaign, Democrats primarily tried to cast Perdue as an out-of-touch elitist who had failed over his term to stay connected to regular voters.

  • Amassing a collection of his own, moreover, might eventually ease his entrance into elitist scientific circles.

  • Her original statement caused an uproar from working mothers who argued Paltrow was out of touch and elitist.

  • In the 18th century, white was an elitist color, for example.

  • Dooley describes Broun as “very friendly, not at all elitist” and very, very conservative.

  • But this 1929 study of the modern world, his most famous book, struck me as hopelessly nostalgic and elitist.

  • Pragmatic requirements and anti-elitist political considerations collided with the literate model and a strange hybrid resulted.

  • Language is not an absolute democratic medium; literacy, with intrinsic elitist characteristics, even less.

  • The aim was to immediately inherit the wealth and power accumulated by generations of elitist rule.