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adv. - In a manner tending to associate only with others of like origins, sympathies, and prejudices .

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Usage examples (6)
  • These four friends always act clannishly, and don't let us participate in their activities
  • Adjective : the clannish behavior of the original members of the country club
  • Often though she might scarify him with her sharp tongue, she was genuinely attached to him, and her clannishly hospitable soul would have been sorely wounded if he had...
  • He loved his family clannishly, and he was rejoiced that they were all again near to him.
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