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US
/ˈɛɫɪˌtɪzəm, eɪˈɫiˌtɪzəm/
]
[ UK /ɪlˈiːtɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈiːtɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals
How To Use elitism In A Sentence
- Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
- It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand. Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
- Rather than this being understood as outdated elitism, or arrogance, this can be read more subtly.
- Their results remain strong; their ethos is unchanged minus the old social elitism; and none of them would think of going back. Times, Sunday Times
- Our sport is rife with that same insidious elitism that has decayed the core of other field sports, which now face the very real prospect of being outlawed.
- The spirit of American democracy is opposed to elitism.
- Higher education shed the German tradition of elitism and became egalitarian.
- It starts with three friends with deeply personal agendas to condemn fascism, elitism, classicism, racism and sexism.
- There's an unintentional air of elitism about the event, specialising as it does on unsullied perfect specimens.
- Those who evade this inherent conservatism of literacy in the name of multicultural antielitism are in effect elitists of an extreme sort. The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education