clannish

Example Sentences

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O’Hanley compared the home’s current vibe to “Animal House”: “We’re quite clannish in that regard, but it’s not deliberate — it just seems to shake out that way.”

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

As each story revolves around the perils and power of racial or clannish identity, their sequels would naturally call for advances in inclusion of all kinds.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2022

Vance attributes his grandparents' clannish and protective behavior to those roots.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020

And considering what we know about the clannish nature of Westerosi society, why would the rank and file rally behind a king whose family members are now technically foreigners?

From Slate • May 21, 2019

In general, the Virginians were the chief beneficiaries of all the highly stylized histories, though, as Adams observed, “not a lad upon the Highlands is more clannish than every Virginian I have ever known.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis