cliquey

Example Sentences

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It conveys a cliquey, clubby feeling that does not suggest openness to those who voice alternative views.

From Seattle Times

While Chan believes there’s a lot to be celebrated with regard to the poetry scene in Seattle, she also said the community needs to evolve to make the scene less “cliquey” and uplift nonwhite poets in similar ways.

From Seattle Times

Even so, we lost three co-workers this past year because of the cliquey, toxic workplace.

From New York Times

Yet the movie’s real drama occurs not on the stairway to heaven, but in the terrestrial halls of high school, where Darby wears black clothing and sneers at her cliquey classmates.

From New York Times

My office is made up of 20 women and five men, and while I am 100 percent in favor, in theory, of working in a mostly women-led work space, my company feels cliquey and sophomoric and kind of ageist at times, too.

From New York Times