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cliquish

[klee-kish, klik-ish] / ˈkli kɪʃ, ˈklɪk ɪʃ /




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To me, he was a hero in a cliquish school.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024

Her school’s faculty is cliquish and unwelcoming, and Penny often draws the ire of a few women who see her as a threat.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

Comics are very cliquish, so you get in a clique with the people you think are funny.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2021

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

They belonged to the same set, and no one was more cliquish than Freeman.

From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul




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