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- adjective Opposed to
elitism - noun One who opposes
elitism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I think that Mr Hessel's book plays on antielitist feelings which animate large segments of the French population," he says.
Former French Resistance Spy Causing New Stir at 93 Tobias Grey 2011
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In Scottsdale, Coben defended his approach as a matter of antielitist ethics.
Paperback Writer 2007
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In Scottsdale, Coben defended his approach as a matter of antielitist ethics.
Paperback Writer 2007
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Here is why (and here comes a bias that in a way is inconsistent with my generally antielitist views): Obama was President of -- was the top guy on -- the Harvard Law Review.
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The disadvantaged students for whom antielitist solicitude is expressed are the very ones who suffer when we fail to introduce traditional literate culture into the earliest grades.
The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education 2002
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Not all European golf federations share Sweden's antielitist, forward-looking practices, but the successful ones do.
SI.com 2009
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Now, it is perhaps not surprising to find this hostility to science in a presidential ticket that prides itself on being antielitist, antiprofessional, and, sometimes, just plain dumb.
U.S. News 2008
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(Imagine -- saying that not everyone at the “elite” Yale Law School is all that smart, when the joke is, as was also said at our lunch table, that people who can’t get into the Yale Law School go to Harvard Law School.) So, there is an antielitist side to a view which in another way is elitest.
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