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
And yet to visit Derry’s neighborhoods is to find a strange mix of clannish loyalty and civic open-mindedness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
Vance attributes his grandparents' clannish and protective behavior to those roots.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2020
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
All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
