The toughest week for a big-league clubby is the one before spring training.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Steve Vucinich, a "clubby" with Oakland since 1968, worked with.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

So there's a lot of self-censorship that goes on under the guise of this kind of clubby relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power, The Press & The Technology of Freedom] Reference

By contrast, Silicon Valley's venture capitalist world is, in Ms. Fannin's telling, "clubby" and "male-dominated.".    From Wordnik.com.  [China's New Frontier] Reference

Bring together the righteous, the greedy and the the 'clubby' and you have all the ingredients for a good dramatic play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Reform: The Righteous, the Greedy and the Clubby -- An Insider's View] Reference

Kurtz has gotten very defensive about the 'clubby' angle in my piece but he's also assuming that that was meant as a criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Kurtz Takes On Politico's Patrick Gavin (VIDEO)] Reference

When CEOs become too "clubby," they say, boards start rubber stamping management decisions instead of critically examining them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boardroom Brain Drain] Reference

Vibert: I like it to sound more live, I think, than most kind of clubby things, I think because I have got a live background myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disquiet » Cornish for Jungle] Reference

The "clubby" dining room now features a plasma TV at every table, plus a plasma TV that acts as the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

The neck, as Gibson explains, is somewhere between the 'clubby' 50's neck (which I like), and the 60's slim taper (which I also like).    From Wordnik.com.  [Amazon.com Gold Box Deals]

Catering to a clubby clientele just isn't enough anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [DUDE WHERE'S MY BENZ?] Reference

I'm not very clubby - not that I have anything against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone In The Cockpit] Reference

In the clubby Senate cloakroom, Kerry made an easy target.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SOLITARY SOLDIER] Reference

Midsize cities like Montgomery can also be clubby and closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Toward Home] Reference

I mean, first of all, it's still pretty clubby at the board level.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2006] Reference

Both had a clubby charm and enjoyed bestowing cutting nicknames on aides.    From Wordnik.com.  [What FDR Teaches Us] Reference

Even the famously clubby British bureaucracy has fallen for transparency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Pass To Good Government] Reference

First off, that his a clubby place and he was the Senate majority leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2009] Reference

Biden disdains the clubby elitism of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Soon to Swoon] Reference

He was a little too eager, out of step with the clubby culture of Richmond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative] Reference

The event was what mattered, and minds could really engage in the clubby atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Needs the G8?] Reference

Me, I think he's a genius, but I found the proceedings a bit too clubby for comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Size Matters] Reference

But the Swiss-born Lutz never really fit into Detroit's clubby, conservative culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fast And The Luxurious] Reference

The maître d 'seated them in a booth that had recently been redone in clubby leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bonesetter's Daughter]

Internet fever and the opening up of Japan's clubby stock market are offering new options.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Warriors] Reference

Then I sat there in the clubby little office and looked at the guy in the suit and waited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killing Floor]

Paul Wellstone's first week in Washington, D.C., was anything but clubby, confined or quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crashing The Capitol Club] Reference

And what it does underscore is this sort of clubby atmosphere in which everybody's working here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2002] Reference

Fancy eats: The clubby Whitney Grill (in a hotel that used to be a flour mill) is the popular choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Minni' Guide] Reference

It provided a piercing glimpse into the clubby, collusive world of Japan Inc. -or so many foreign critics thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is The Game Rigged?] Reference

Soon thereafter, the Ritz held its first cigar smoker, a clubby black-tie dinner where gentlemen could puff in peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blowing Smoke] Reference

Strong stuff but vintage Miranda -- only the most outrageous member of a clubby coterie of men who run Brazilian football.    From Wordnik.com.  [Numero Uno Of The Cartolas] Reference

Eat dinner at the clubby Tower Bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel, where every night is as celebrity-studded as a red-carpet premiere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Hours In: Hollywood] Reference

Those early experiences became the basis for her dealings on clubby Capitol Hill, a male-dominated culture if ever there was one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rolling With Pelosi] Reference

Bloomberg was able to see that the clubby world of high finance was breaking down — that technology could open up the marketplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg's Knightly Ambitions] Reference

That's because we're in an Era of Sour Feelings, when GOP obstruction and Democratic fears are stinking up the once clubby cloakroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Ain’t No Friend of Mine] Reference