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 cliquish culture of private aviation is no friend to the climate, either.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 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
The far smaller English community hangs together in a somewhat cliquish fashion, and possibly cherishes a latent grudge against the Americans for their paramount influence in island affairs.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
