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
Certainly plenty of spaces pay lip service to the idea of openness, but wind up feeling cliquish.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2019
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
They belonged to the same set, and no one was more cliquish than Freeman.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
