Not identifying with the hoi polloi

Usage examples of elitist.

One councillor in particular, a nobleman named Kopek, has been drumming up elitist, anticommoner sentiment against Martok.

The answer brought raised eyebrows from Calum, in whose opinion only the stodgily elitist clung to their titles these days.

Not a tyranny of elitists, not a government based on a monstrous false threat.

The government of elitists knew there was a problem on the waterfronts of America.

Manticoran elitists free rein to wreak havoc on the commerce in this sector.

Citizens of all degree were obliged to repeat the ritual denunciation of 'royalists, absolutists, reactionaries, elitists, malcontents, social parasites, and all such enemies of the Motherland'.

Now since you appear to like to associate yourself with Shakespeare, might not this dramatic work of yours in its lonely search for an audience have perhaps been better suited to the mercies of the rather more narrow, elitist theatre going public which we agreed his plays call forth?

The non-ops never have been able to decide whether we're operant role models or a gang of un­holy elitist schemers.

This is the elitist side of the posthumanism shtick, potentially as threatening to her post enlightenment ideas as the divine right of kings.

Only the mind-boggling resources of the left could persuade so many people that these elitist snobs speak for the little guy.

He was ordered to form an elitist subcell, the end result of which was the training of insurgent teams used for the physical disruption of government reform programs.

A short, witty, stinging review of sustainability, climate change, and the precautionary principle by an Oxford economist and former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution who cares more about the poor of the world than he does the elitist egos of Western environmentalists.

There were a few fireworks when Dole hit me for scaring seniors with my ads criticizing the Medicare cuts in the Republican budget I had vetoed, and he repeated his claim from his convention speech that I had filled the administration with young elitists who “never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered, and never learned” and who wanted “to fund with your earnings their dubious and self-serving schemes.