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Example sentences for: intelligentsia

How can you use “intelligentsia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He horrified the publishing intelligentsia by shutting down Basic Books.
The authors wrote that they were "saddened and frightened" by the implications of this choice, and they blamed the white intelligentsia for legitimizing it.
Literati and intelligentsia retain their snooty classical endings because it looks good on them and other pseudo- cognoscente.
In addition to the support of left-wing Islamic radicals, Khatami received the overwhelming backing of the intelligentsia, the urban middle class, and female and younger voters.
I love her mocking eggheads at jazz clubs ("I do enjoy the intelligentsia's pretending they know a horn from a harp while the musicians pretend they know a book from a bookie").