cliquish
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To me, he was a hero in a cliquish school.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
They claim accountant-verified objectivity but often appear cliquish and stuck in industry bubbles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
The interactions among these writers, artists, scholars and sensual adventurers made for a cauldron of contradictions — loving and heartbreaking, productive and chaotic, gossipy and protective, open-minded and cliquish.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
In 2015, after a number of departures, Fortune published an article in which former employees complained about a cliquish, “mean girls” corporate culture.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
The far smaller English community hangs together in a somewhat cliquish fashion, and possibly cherishes a latent grudge against the Americans for their paramount influence in island affairs.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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