clubby

Example Sentences

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As a Brit who has long mingled in London’s establishment, he could help HSBC’s French-Lebanese chief executive, Georges Elhedery, navigate the U.K.’s clubby financial and political scene.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

It reveals an American elite blinded to outrages occurring in plain view, due to the clubby nature of high society.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

After two years in her appointed role, she lost an election bid in 2011 but continued to make a name for herself in the tight-knit, clubby world of progressive West Hollywood politics.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Tana, born Dobrivoje Tanasijević, was a professional soccer player before opening the clubby red-sauce Italian restaurant in 1964, running it until he sold it in 2009.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025

Morgan knocked the ashes out of his short, clubby little pipe, put it in his shirt pocket behind his badge, and went on.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)