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cliquish

[klee-kish, klik-ish] / ˈkli kɪʃ, ˈklɪk ɪʃ /




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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

In cliquish Miami, where high school connections can run deep, she graduated from Ransom Everglades, a private school on the shores of Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 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

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




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