How to Use elitist in a Sentence

elitist

1 of 2 noun

• But that isn’t to say the prolific 79-year-old artist is an elitist.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 June 2022
• Don’t be a scold, don’t be a moaner, don’t be a finger-wagging elitist, don’t be an eco-bore, don’t be a mentally ill homeless guy.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• Ava’s a comedy elitist, believing funny stories are preferable to the zingers that have been the bedrock of Deborah’s career.
  — Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• Miller portrayed Warner as an elitist who spent too much time squiring stars, including Barbara Walters.
  — Eileen Putman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2021
• The GOP successfully turned that into a liability at home, implying that the presidential candidate was an out-of-touch elitist.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• O'Toole has sought to capitalize on the perception that Trudeau, the son of a former Canadian prime minister, is a classic liberal political elitist who is more interested in his own political ambition that leading the country.
  — Paula Newton and Luke McGee, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
• But that isn’t to say the prolific 79-year-old artist is an elitist.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 June 2022
• Don’t be a scold, don’t be a moaner, don’t be a finger-wagging elitist, don’t be an eco-bore, don’t be a mentally ill homeless guy.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• Ava’s a comedy elitist, believing funny stories are preferable to the zingers that have been the bedrock of Deborah’s career.
  — Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• Miller portrayed Warner as an elitist who spent too much time squiring stars, including Barbara Walters.
  — Eileen Putman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2021
• The GOP successfully turned that into a liability at home, implying that the presidential candidate was an out-of-touch elitist.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• O'Toole has sought to capitalize on the perception that Trudeau, the son of a former Canadian prime minister, is a classic liberal political elitist who is more interested in his own political ambition that leading the country.
  — Paula Newton and Luke McGee, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021

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elitist

2 of 2 adjective

• The fashion world, the Met Gala, all of that can feel very elitist at times.
  — Emil Wilbekin, Essence, 21 Aug. 2023
• But [at the same time], the fashion world itself was so elitist.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
• No culture is too haughty for a sight gag or too elitist for a pun.
  — Michelle Cohn, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2022
• Many see her as the no-fuss royal, with neither a temper nor elitist airs, the steady calm at Charles’s side.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• Musk tried to brand blue checkmarks as elitist and corrupt.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• Those who criticize golf often say the sport is elitist and costs too much.
  — Tom Pilcher, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
• French politics has become an elitist preserve of white men from the best schools.
  — Nabila Ramdani, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The notion that there is something snobbish and elitist about dressing up.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The pitch was aimed directly at overcoming the elitist tag.
  — Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• In fact, the idea that a worker should never have a rough patch in their career, or a period without a decent job, is deeply elitist.
  — Cynthia Watson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• López Obrador denies the reforms are a threat to democracy and says criticism is elitist.
  — Fabiola Sanchez, ajc, 27 Feb. 2023
• College antics that used to be accepted are now seen as elitist, sexist, or worse.
  — Will Jeakle, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• Some residents and businesses on Pico paint the gates as elitist.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• And about having specific opinions about art not being some elitist hoity-toity thing.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• Throughout her career, Freelon has often had to push back against norms that feel elitist and segregated.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The tournament is largely removed from its reputation as an elitist sport for the rich.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Allowing people to pay to cut lift lines will make the sport even more elitist, some skiers and snowboarders say Ski areas have been winter’s playgrounds for decades.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2021
• The incident is likely to revive concerns that the palace is elitist and out of touch regarding issues of race and identity.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
• Some people think that Latinx is an elitist term that is mostly used in academic settings.
  — Minhae Shim Roth, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2020
• Meet 9 Kentucky cats who get the job done A few folks on social media called out the Kentucky Colonels for being elitist or ceremonial.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
• The two are now determined to change the face of the sport, which has been historically seen as too White, expensive, elitist and exclusionary.
  — CBS News, 18 July 2022
• Peru where Mori plays Norma who, after being ditched by her husband (played by Meier), must face the scorn of Lima’s elitist high society.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, a community living under the clouds of war, what has been dismissed as elitist elsewhere has emerged as a pillar of strength and support.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
• But what is elitist today could be equal or even essential tomorrow.
  — Martin Boyd, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Is the criticism of Robinhood just an elitist attitude that most people can’t be trusted to invest their own money?
  — New York Times, 28 July 2021
• Or even something pretentious and self-involved and elitist to a fault — those sculptures and paintings and, yes, motion pictures can’t all be masterpieces.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• In that regard, especially, the current system stands in ironic opposition to the one imagined by the elitist founders of the College Board in the mid-20th century.
  — David Perry, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• White and elitist, they were born in the mountains of Europe, and are flourishing for the most part in mountain communities without a lot of racial or ethnic diversity.
  — Aaron Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2022
• The prime minister and his supporters argue that the Supreme Court has become an insular, elitist group that does not represent the Israeli people.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 24 July 2023
• That change, like the sleepover, is part of his effort to make opera, often seen as an elitist, highbrow and abstruse art form for the initiated, more familiar and accessible, especially to children.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo Alessandro Penso, New York Times, 13 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024