clubby
Example Sentences
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The clubby Lloyd’s market connects thousands of buyers and sellers of risks daily, with deals struck in a cavernous underwriting room or the nearby bars, thronged by underwriters and brokers every lunchtime.
Upon landing in a private airport, visitors get a luggage tag that some businessmen like to keep on their bags as a clubby accessory.
The clubby, intense effort of designing the new machine revitalized him.
From Science Magazine
But the open discussion over her capacity to serve shows just how much the Senate has changed in recent years, with high-stakes partisanship replacing a more collegial, clubby atmosphere.
From Seattle Times
It will also test the power of personal persuasion in the clubby Senate, whose members can often be influenced by fellow members whose counsel they trust.
From Seattle Times
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