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 cliquish culture of private aviation is no friend to the climate, either.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

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

It was a rather cliquish society, worked with more favour than fairness, and was principally among those girls whose homes lay near to the school.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley