What JQuery selector excludes items with a parent that matches a given selector?

Question

I have

var $set = $(\'.foo,.bar\').filter(
    function() {return $(this).parents(\'.baz\').length < 1;});

as a way to select all the el

Answer 1

var $li = jQuery('li', this).not('.dropdown-menu > li');

I'm using Roots theme and they change the dropdowns from 'sub-menu' to '.dropdown-menu'