chatterati
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of chatterati
C20: from chatter + -ati as in literati
Example Sentences
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Yet critics, including myself, now feel free to weigh in anyway, and neither long distance nor review embargoes stop the busy fingers of the chatterati.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
Morris is correct that the current hierarchies of celebrity depend somewhat on moral valuations, elevating certain figures, such as Beyoncé, beyond criticism—at least among the professional chatterati.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2018
Still, Sondheim writes that the workshop “was not the mess the chatterati made it out to be.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2016
Maybe it’s just killing time; maybe there’s a little bit of jealousy over the speedy domination another early nay-sayer , Jeb Bush, has assumed among the chatterati since he, too, began to explore a run.
From US News ● Jan. 12, 2015
Decision Points by George W Bush Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Search the Guardian bookshop There, I've said it, and the conventional wisdom chatterati will nod amen to that.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2010
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