cliquish
Example Sentences
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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
The agreement typified another problem in Food: a cliquish culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 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
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
