Adjective : the clannish behavior of the original members of the country club. From Dictionary.com.
Their so-called clannishness, their solidarity, has many exceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
Our so-called "clannishness" is not the issue here. From Wordnik.com. [Articles] Reference
Perhaps it was the Scots clannishness that attracted them. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
"You have not grasped the clannishness of us yet if you fancy --". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
The clannishness of life goes undisguised—is celebrated, in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference
This clannishness has been a public relations nightmare for some groups. From Wordnik.com. [Hasidic Women in the United States.] Reference
That tends to contribute to the clannishness non-Cubans sometimes complain about. From Wordnik.com. [DarklyDreamingDexter]
It's large scale corporate enterprise and clannishness that aren't very compatible. From Wordnik.com. [Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
With rare unselfishness, or, if you will, with Celtic clannishness, he did a good deal to make. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Then it was that that clannishness, which was his to so extraordinary a degree, asserted itself. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19: Transformation] Reference
American clannishness, and he sighed to think of the utter lack of family affection in his own life. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
Security and home are primal drives of this sign, sometimes to the point of clannishness or even xenophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Special Alert: Horoscope U.S.A.] Reference
To understand the strength of the feeling of clannishness in this district one must reside amongst the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
I've felt uncomfortable with SFWA for some time now: its clannishness, pettiness, and frequent mean-spiritedness. From Wordnik.com. [Why SFWA has crossed the line] Reference
But as patriotism and jingoism are as far apart as the east from the west, so are family feeling and clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
What are the most upsetting signs of her rejection of you, of her clannishness with her friends, of her immaturity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Blessing of a B Minus] Reference
It has a reputation for clannishness and a strict code of honor, which requires that revenge be exacted for a wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs-in-Waiting] Reference
With further increase in the foreign population of the city there will be danger from race and religious clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
The clannishness of Knight, his family and neighbors made them prefer an isolated life, and the war had disturbed their seclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Rebelling Against the Rebels] Reference
Sharing genes is kinda a cool thing, but I think that a lot of human misery comes out of the clannishness based on blood relationships. From Wordnik.com. [neither second nor removed] Reference
This definition of neighbour does away with all clannishness and exclusiveness, and man comes face to face with his fellow man as a man. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Life of the Christian] Reference
Yet there must be some clannishness based upon birth, for your true Filipino never repudiates his poor relations or apologizes for them. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
I was much amused by the extreme clannishness of these persons. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference
One of the first points to be taken account of is his clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
All too with an intense clannishness, the secret of their success, and. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
It is a fatality to create or foster clannishness in a government like ours. From Wordnik.com. [Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South] Reference
They are surprised at the clannishness of stamp collectors, and their lifelong devotion to their hobby. From Wordnik.com. [Stamp Collecting as a Pastime] Reference
To expect the Albanians rapidly to throw aside their clannishness is to prepare for oneself a disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference
There is no "Northern" clannishness, and no distinctive "Northern" sentiment that prides itself on being such. From Wordnik.com. [Bricks without Straw A Novel] Reference
His hard, dry face was for an instant transfigured by a grim fealty and the dull glow of some sectarian clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonauts of North Liberty] Reference
As we said before, they may have experienced evolutionary pressures favoring clannishness or even hostility to outsiders. From Wordnik.com. Reference
From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
An inherent pugnacity, and a whole-hearted belief in and love of their county, which amounts to something more than clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918] Reference
Grinding monopoly, harsh treatment, prejudice that drives into clannishness and race hatred -- these will make of the Slavs a peril. From Wordnik.com. [Aliens or Americans?] Reference
His pride and his imagination were to be barbaric in their immensity, his clannishness was to be that of the most primitive civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference
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