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.
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
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse laid bare divisions in the usually clubby venture capital community, with some investors blaming their counterparts for igniting a panic that brought down a beloved startup business partner.
From Seattle Times
The other seemed much more like the man that other witnesses had described - savvy and charming, once a formidable player in the state's clubby legal circuit.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
