elitist - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • become: I've not become an elitist in my travels.
  • seem: People were concerned that the plans seemed very elitist.
  • consider: We'll come together over certain fine things that would be considered elitist, or musical like this.
  • appear: While Albini's work has been championed by rock music's equivalent of an intellectual elite, he is keen not to appear elitist.
  • remain: After various military interventions in the government and its policies, the politics of Brazil have remained rather elitist.

Preposition: in

  • sense: It is elitist in the sense that, in the world as it is, not everyone has or is open to this vision.

Adjective modifier

  • less: Do you think designers in general should be more helpful and less protective of ideas and less elitist?
  • more: Interesting to compare with the Observer's top 100, which is much more elitist.
  • very: It was seen as very elitist and there was nowhere for it to go.
  • arrogant: And The New York Times is putting its own arrogant, elitist, left-wing agenda before the interests of the American people.
  • most: It would take the most elitist of football purists to dislike Sensible Soccer 2006.
  • liberal: Harper said: ' Helen is a liberal elitist and is forthright in her opinions, like me.

Modifies a noun

  • notion: Here in Paul's first letter to Timothy Paul warns against the false teachers who had such elitist notions.
  • attitude: But is this an elitist attitude which is rapidly becoming a luxury in a world of threatened habitats and species?
  • approach: For writers like Danny Baker and Mark P they were what punk was all about away from the arty / elitist approach.
  • institution: There is serious danger of this university becoming the elitist institution many already believe it to be.
  • sport: Skiing used to be viewed as an elitist sport, but this has never been the case at Kendal.
  • club: Of course entrance to the most elitist clubs was no longer regulated by birth and blood.

Noun used with modifier

  • SOS: Karma: +6/-0 Gender: Posts: 97 Re: is SOS elitist?
  • bit: You might say to yourself: ' Well, is that not a bit elitist?

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