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

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

The mechanics of this makeshift community are different to those of every other friendship group I’ve been involved in as an adult: we’re very local, committed to everyone’s welfare, and open rather than cliquish.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2018

Any system, in fact, which involves “double election” tends to make the body concerned hidebound and cliquish.

From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Robbins, Alfred Farthing