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
It has that common pervasive dampness along with plenty of clannish townspeople who resent these nosy Nellies poking around where they have no business.
From New York Times ● May 8, 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
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
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
