mandarin
(en)
(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist
having culminated in the production of generations of left mandarins without the sophistication (or cultural capital) that the epithet mandarin once connoted
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7 years ago