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  • noun Plural form of cosmopolitan.

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Examples

  • They were labelled cosmopolitans, they were labelled ruthless intellectuals, they were labelled parasites.

    Johann Hari: Israel's Voice of Reason? An Exclusive Interview With Amos Oz 2009

  • A subtle tension already exists between the so-called cosmopolitans and heartlanders.

    TODAYonline 2010

  • A subtle tension already exists between the so-called cosmopolitans and heartlanders.

    TODAYonline 2010

  • "cosmopolitans" - (which in Germany, at that time, took extreme concentration in his attacks on the Jews) - it was called fascism.

    unknown title 2009

  • "cosmopolitans" - which in Germany, at that time, took extreme concentration in his attacks on the Jews - it was called fascism.

    Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com 2008

  • "cosmopolitans" - which in Germany, at that time, took extreme concentration in his attacks on the Jews - it was called fascism.

    Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com 2008

  • The era of the " cosmopolitans " was over, a fact nicely illustrated by the undistinguished postwar career of the distinctly cos mo politan William Fisher.

    Tinker, Tailor, Pilot, Spy Andrew Stuttaford 2010

  • Far from being an anti-Semite personally (two of his wives were Jewish) Simonov nonetheless wrote an article accusing the "cosmopolitans" of "putting [Jean-Paul] Sartre in place of Maksim Gorky and the pornography of [Henry] Miller in the place of Tolstoy."

    In Stalin's Trap Frank, Joseph 2009

  • Just noting that, as the Cons are so very much in love with Europe, France and other such "cosmopolitans".

    Archive 2008-09-01 CC 2008

  • It means in the first place the forcible dominion of capitalists and the proletariat [!] over the productive powers of the nations, and lastly, in the struggle of all against all, a return to those prehistoric conditions out of which, in the opinion of our "cosmopolitans," all our culture took its rise.

    Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890

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