cliquish
Example Sentences
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To me, he was a hero in a cliquish school.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
Her school’s faculty is cliquish and unwelcoming, and Penny often draws the ire of a few women who see her as a threat.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Comics are very cliquish, so you get in a clique with the people you think are funny.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2021
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 Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
