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elitist

noun

Someone who believes in rule by an elite group.

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"How dare you insult Rome!" begins one, but, of course, in Italian, because the writer is obviously a big elitist, showing off the fact that she can speak Italian.

In Germany, says the 42-year-old, there is no outcry about subsidising art forms seen as elitist in the UK.

The five-week campaign was marked by negative mud-slinging all round, with Labour accusing Cameron of being an elitist, keen only to protect the rich during the prolonged effects of recession since 2008.

The reality is that there will always be recalcitrant minorities in Ireland willing to wage elitist wars "on behalf of the Irish people" even if the majority of the Irish people don't want such conflict.

But he said that the Gang of Four was an elitist movement, in contrast to Ukip.

I hear, too, about a populist with a weakness for the soaps, and also an elitist who does not just quote Voltaire in cabinet, but does so in French.

Could it be that, for the first time since pop culture emerged in the 1950s, it too is being gentrified, even made elitist?

(The early days were quieter, but that's partly because access was more restricted – which is to say, more classist, elitist and US- and European-centric).

Senator Bob Corker said: "In many ways easy money is an elitist policy".

But Republicans, who are seeking to define Clinton as an elitist and creature of Washington, are going all-in on the foundation through attack ads and at conservative gatherings in early battleground states.

The snobbishness and exclusivity of Oink were exactly what this new group was looking for: a place to show off their dismissive, elitist attitudes about both technology and music.

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