How to Use elitism in a Sentence

elitism

noun

• There’s more than a whiff of elitism to Menand’s choices.
  — Andy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• In some ways, that sense of elitism is what drew many people to the outdoors in the first place.
  — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2019
• Woods hopes the free production helps dispel the sense of elitism that dogs the arts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
• In their view, the rise of populism made the old elitism important again.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
• One fear is that this type of criticism might smack of elitism.
  — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Backers of the reforms have long accused the high court of overreach and elitism.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• There’s a difference between the elites and elitism, which is a set of policies that help the elite.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Oct. 2018
• The check mark has been criticized as a symbol of elitism on the platform.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• And yeah, a lot comes with that —there’s record store snobbery, and there’s audiophile (elitism).
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2022
• Their amoral elitism is the only part of neo-Gossip Girl that feels like Gossip Girl.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
• Here, the story is based in more skittish black bourgeois art-world elitism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Sep. 2021
• Short films promote the poll’s avant-garde elitism: Meshes of the Afternoon, La Jetée.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
• Adding to the disconnection is an inescapable touch of elitism.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• Noir bars are the antidote to the elitism inherent in this capital of ego and glitz.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• The private schools that have chosen to drop the APs intend it not as a gesture of elitism, of course, but as a vote for learning-for-learning’s-sake.
  — Caitlin MacY, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• As well as just take out that snotty elitism that Reid and I are both so stridently opposed to.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• The crowd cheered for its newfound elitism, but the energy in the room was sagging palpably.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• The 'Tunnel Club' has been viewed by many as just another step in the gradual climb to elitism the game is taken.
  — SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The store excelled at a time when fashion was elitist and its elitism only made people want it more.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
• Anything that smacks of elitism and privilege will not have much appeal.
  — Sally Quinn, Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• For many, many years, road cycling was synonymous with elitism.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 June 2022
• The bigotry and elitism spewing out of the White House has spawned demands from the left for extreme socialist reform.
  — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• In the harsh comments in his 1922 travel diary, that same elitism comes into play, this time through an ethnic lens.
  — Ze'ev Rosenkranz, Time, 19 June 2018
• But is our rejection of Botero indicative of our own elitism?
  — Pablo Helguera, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Nakamura’s mission to bring a populist movement to chess runs up against the game’s marked culture of elitism.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 June 2020
• Sanders has long complained that the Democratic Party’s elitism is what sank its chances of winning the white working class.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 10 Apr. 2018
• Yet somehow this music’s defining trait became a kind of elitism.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• Michael Silverman/Globe Staff Two days of continent-wide howls of elitism and greed from fans and players forced the abandonment of the plan.
  — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• When it was announced that Abramovitz’s hall would seat fewer people than Carnegie, critics cried elitism.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Tom Wolfe novel of the same name that examines race, elitism, and politics in late-’90s Atlanta.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024