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clannish loyalty. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the clannish behavior of the original members of the country club. From Dictionary.com.
It's kind of clannish if you'll allow me to us that word. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with James Arthur Jones, November 19, 2003. Interview U-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The Morrises were a very "clannish" family, and my grandfather's house was the London centre. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
Special-operations forces are clannish and insular. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind Of A Commando] Reference
"Boys are as clannish as they can be!" said Jess severely. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
And now I close my clannish lay with blessings on the shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The Boers are very much like the Scotch -- they are clannish. From Wordnik.com. [The Boer in Peace and War] Reference
Have you noticed how social, but clannish, our wild flowers are?. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
The Scandinavian Mormons are very clannish in their disposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
The sect, vital in itself, was clannish in feeling and politics. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
They were clannish, self-centered, spoiled, and not overly bright. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
In 1811 the dead world of clannish localty was fresh in many memories. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Doctor King did not praise personal wins or commend clannish conquests. From Wordnik.com. ["I won!"] Reference
Of course you know to begin with that the Kane family is very clannish. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
They were very clannish people, fond of their own kin to the last degree. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
Short, odd-looking, clannish people who live apart from the Oz mainstream. From Wordnik.com. [Danny Miller: Schlepping Over the Rainbow] Reference
English and Scotch alike, are very clannish, and very tender to an old friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Feehan was fiercely protective of the close, almost clannish culture of the FDNY. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
They never learn to speak much English, and it makes them clannish and suspicious of. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
Ageyl were so clannish that they would not put themselves about except for one another. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Something clannish now -- one of those ancestral rigs that you are always cherishing. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The clannish insects who had amalgamated with mankind tended to care better for their own. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Matter]
They are still clannish and have not yet escaped from the mental habits of the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment] Reference
All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
“As clannish as the Highlanders?” said I. “Yes,” said he, “and a good deal more.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
"We have been wanting to have an old-time frolic, but didn't wish to seem selfish and clannish.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
She had a difficult task, the people were clannish, and their prejudice was not easily overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
The tone and transcript were considered controversial by the clannish amongst the American Jews. From Wordnik.com. [The Qualified Quest for Justice] Reference
On the whole, and taken rightly in their clannish nature, their virtues preponderate over their vices. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
In spite of fast trains and electric telegraphs human beings are clannish and local in their interests. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
Her splendid sympathy was the reverse of clannish; it was applied to every mortal who crossed her path. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
But he had come from a solitary life at a tutor's to a college where the men were clannish, most of them. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
But his brief time as director of Central Intelligence has earned him enemies inside the clannish intel world. From Wordnik.com. [GOSS: RECONFIRMATION--FOR THE SAME JOB?] Reference
Our social history reveals that we have been effective in acquiring territory, food, and goods by being clannish. From Wordnik.com. [Opening Night Celebration: Reaching into the Future] Reference
There also is limited access to influential Asian business circles built on family relationships and clannish affinities. From Wordnik.com. [Soul And Sushi] Reference
Add to that a lack of any clannish regard for MacCailein Mor, whom he treats just like a common merchant, and that's all. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I am not sorry that the white people have been clannish enough and have had race pride enough to protect their own society. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Linux users need to be enthusiastic participants in the sometimes clannish open-source community to get the optimum results. From Wordnik.com. [Windows Server vs. Linux] Reference
It was a warm and generous family, clannish, passionate in their devotion to one another, easy to amuse and quick to enjoy. From Wordnik.com. [And Then: Parts 1-3] Reference
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