clannish

Example Sentences

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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

“That thing where ya break out of your own clannish mentality ta do somethin’ for someone else!”

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

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

The characters in this movie — as in a lot of Farr’s other scripts — are clannish, and fiercely protective of their own territory.

From The Verge • Mar. 29, 2019

All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien