cliquish
Example Sentences
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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
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)
