cliquish
Example Sentences
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The interactions among these writers, artists, scholars and sensual adventurers made for a cauldron of contradictions — loving and heartbreaking, productive and chaotic, gossipy and protective, open-minded and cliquish.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 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
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
He spoke of "society" being mixed in the neighbourhood and of the difficulty of getting people to work together, and "do" things; they were cliquish.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
