cliquish
Example Sentences
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To me, he was a hero in a cliquish school.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
Her school’s faculty is cliquish and unwelcoming, and Penny often draws the ire of a few women who see her as a threat.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Beyond this core pair, the characterizations are mostly flat: cliquish students, stuffy authority figures and clueless grown-ups.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 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
Any system, in fact, which involves “double election” tends to make the body concerned hidebound and cliquish.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Alfred Farthing Robbins
