How to Use elitism in a Sentence

elitism

noun
  • One fear is that this type of criticism might smack of elitism.
    — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • 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
  • However, elitism rears its head.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2025
  • In their view, the rise of populism made the old elitism important again.
    — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
  • Woods hopes the free production helps dispel the sense of elitism that dogs the arts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • Here, the story is based in more skittish black bourgeois art-world elitism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 Sep. 2021
  • For many, many years, road cycling was synonymous with elitism.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 June 2022
  • Less elitism and more embracing a wider range of talent is what my point of view looks like.
    — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The check mark has been criticized as a symbol of elitism on the platform.
    — Haleluya Hadero, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Backers of the reforms have long accused the high court of overreach and elitism.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Anything that smacks of elitism and privilege will not have much appeal.
    — Sally Quinn, Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • And yeah, a lot comes with that —there’s record store snobbery, and there’s audiophile (elitism).
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2022
  • Yet somehow this music’s defining trait became a kind of elitism.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
  • Adding to the disconnection is an inescapable touch of elitism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Quantopian’s bet was that this kind of elitism might give it a competitive edge.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
  • But is our rejection of Botero indicative of our own elitism?
    — Pablo Helguera, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Coming from a religious upbringing, this idea of elitism deeply shocked me.
    — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The elitism point is interesting.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Noir bars are the antidote to the elitism inherent in this capital of ego and glitz.
    — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • But just about everyone else sees the Walmart design as a mockery of elitism.
    — Aarushi Bhandari, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The crowd cheered for its newfound elitism, but the energy in the room was sagging palpably.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Trump is the embodiment of elitism — white, wealthy and entitled.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 20 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • This dark comedy-horror takes sharp jabs at elitism in the food world, serving up satire and suspense in equal measure.
    — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • This combination of elitism and sadism is distinct to Fincher, as is his puke-and-urine color scheme.
    — Armond White, National Review, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In a profession not without egotism and elitism, Vincent was among the friendliest.
    — Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Their amoral elitism is the only part of neo-Gossip Girl that feels like Gossip Girl.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
  • Frank concluded that many Kansans had been bamboozled by populist anti-elitism.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026

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