clannish

Example Sentences

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The model relies on a dramatic shift in relations among officers and prisoners, two historically warring factions in a system built on clannish gamesmanship for survival.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

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

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

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

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020

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

They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell