clannish

Example Sentences

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The model relies on a dramatic shift in relations among officers and prisoners, two historically warring factions in a system built on clannish gamesmanship for survival.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

The characters in this movie — as in a lot of Farr’s other scripts — are clannish, and fiercely protective of their own territory.

From The Verge • Mar. 29, 2019

Mary, already a widow and still in her teens, alights from France as an avatar of worldliness and modernity in a rugged, clannish country.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2018

They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell