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cliquish

[klee-kish, klik-ish] / ˈkli kɪʃ, ˈklɪk ɪʃ /




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The cliquish culture of private aviation is no friend to the climate, either.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

In cliquish Miami, where high school connections can run deep, she graduated from Ransom Everglades, a private school on the shores of Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 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)