literati
li tuh ro tee
- n the literary intelligentsia
- But a slowly enlarging circle of literati insisted that a magnum opus had been overlooked, and the publisher at last consented to a second edition that proves the literati right.
- The author of several novels that beguiled the literati once upon a time, he now has no agent--so he feels he has to promote himself, even to his own family.
- But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic.