Definition of "intellectualists" [intellectualists]

• Plural form of intellectualist. (noun)

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• "'intellectualists' in the disparaging sense in which the word is now often used."
• "Writers are intellectuals, and intellectuals are often intellectualists."
• "Why is it that the anti-intellectualists have managed to box us into this notion that if you hold only one opinion and never deviate (irrespective of facts) you're a Moral Upstanding Amurikan (tm) and if you either nuance your understanding of an issue or God forbid actually hold more than view on a topic as dictated by circumstance or a changing factual basis, you're a schizophrenic East Coast Elitist (tm)?"