cliquish
Example Sentences
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The cliquish culture of private aviation is no friend to the climate, either.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022
“My cliquish world consisted of ladies and gents from Manhattan’s exclusive private schools and preppies down from New England boarding schools who played bit-parts on weekends and holidays,” she wrote.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022
The agreement typified another problem in Food: a cliquish culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2020
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 Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)
