cliquish

Example Sentences

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To me, he was a hero in a cliquish school.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

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

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

The far smaller English community hangs together in a somewhat cliquish fashion, and possibly cherishes a latent grudge against the Americans for their paramount influence in island affairs. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)