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Example sentences for: literati

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

I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.
The literati truly cannot be satisfied unless they get economics back from the nerds.
Literati and intelligentsia retain their snooty classical endings because it looks good on them and other pseudo- cognoscente.
An article profiles Leon Wieseltier, the crack literary editor of the New Republic . Wieseltier virtually dropped out of sight after hobnobbing with the literati elite during his mid-'80s "summit of punditry."
.. (I favor the alliterative CAVE CANEM, which would at least protect the literati.)