elitist
ಗಣ್ಯರ
definition
noun
a person who believes that a system or society should be ruled or dominated by an elite.
adjective
the old, elitist image of the string quartet
favoring, advocating, or restricted to an elite.
example
I think golf, with its 'elitist' image, is a fashion statement for many.
And now is that an 'elitist' point of view on his part?
Picking only 3 donut shops as the Best in the County is an 'elitist' affront to all donut shops!
This year, however, the people have risen up, thrown their 'elitist' president out of office, and asserted themselves as the new democratic power.
The position of conservative jurisprudence flows pretty easily from distrust of 'elitist' power and the empirical record of the mischief spawned by prior generations of judges.
Sure, it's opposed to the views of some of your more 'elitist' liberal types, but it's also diametrically opposed to big-business Republicanism.
For years, death-penalty supporters have claimed that Europe's abolitionist laws were 'elitist' reforms that did not reflect popular sentiment.
After the requisite 'elitist' sneer or two toward President Bush, his comments about the state of Iraq were constantly negative, but it seemed that he could not see the forest from the trees.
Due to the 'elitist' nature of opposition parties and their misuse of ideologies, the masses appear to have withdrawn from utilizing them as a means of entering the formal political scene.
In the long run, we pay an even heavier price by galvanizing opponents bent on freeing themselves from what they perceive as 'elitist' disrespect for democratic governance.
We do not mean ‘intellectual’ in an 'elitist' sense, restricted only to those in professions based in thought and writing.
While Michael Adams, who was very much a nonconformist, may have taken him under his wing for a while, the cultural politics of the University at the time I was living there were still quite 'elitist' .
While Lennon evokes a nostalgic longing for the early days of rock and roll, Ferry presents a heavily ironic image of 'elitist' sophistication.
And if you think those situations are completely unrelated to that discussion… then you're just living in your own closed, 'elitist' fantasy world.
The company has drafted in flying snowmen and jigging reindeer in a bid to shake off its intimidating and 'elitist' image and is planning to use rock music to increase its appeal to teenagers.
But neither party can even go near it because it will be greeted with fury by corporate America and will be perceived my most Americans as an 'elitist' attack on their lifestyle.
And Bertha, which came along just as baby boomers were hitting their middle years, contributed to a surge of interest in golf and helped it shed its 'elitist' image.
It speaks volumes about the conformity of ombudsmen that none of the nearly dozen people who wrote about Kovach's speech found this appallingly 'elitist' sentiment worth questioning.
The most celebrated account of the 'elitist' image is due to Plato's Republic.
A poet hailed as one of the most exciting new voices in the North-west has said he hopes Thursday's National Poetry Day will help combat poetry's 'elitist' image.
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