It is wrong and elitist for politicians to dismiss their success out of hand, just because it clashes with some sepia-tinted vision of how society should be run.
Newspapers denounce privacy injunctions as an elitist tool open only to the wealthy.
It is a profoundly elitist position.
She accused him of being elitist.
Because of this attitude, many people see the indie music culture as elitist and exclusionary.
A secular priesthood of social workers snatch children from "elitist" parents (though that scandal, he later discovers, turns out to be not what it seems).
Mrs Clinton has spent the past five days talking about nothing else, accusing Mr Obama of being "elitist" and "condescending".