cliquish
Example Sentences
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Had he been unaware of a sometimes cliquish and toxic office culture, with another top aide, Chief of Staff Ana Guerrero, dishing out Facebook insults against prominent politicos?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022
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
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
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
