cliquish

Example Sentences

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Had he been unaware of a sometimes cliquish and toxic office culture, with another top aide, Chief of Staff Ana Guerrero, dishing out Facebook insults against prominent politicos?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

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

Certainly plenty of spaces pay lip service to the idea of openness, but wind up feeling cliquish.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2019

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

He spoke of "society" being mixed in the neighbourhood and of the difficulty of getting people to work together, and "do" things; they were cliquish.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)