cliquish
Example Sentences
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To me, he was a hero in a cliquish school.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024
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
“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
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
It was a rather cliquish society, worked with more favour than fairness, and was principally among those girls whose homes lay near to the school.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
