Adjective : a cliquish neighborhood. ,narrow, cliquish notions about art. From Dictionary.com.
I never was this girly-girly cliquish kind of person. From Wordnik.com. [Women Who Dared - Miriam Waltzer on TRADITIONAL ROLES] Reference
Junior High and High School can be extremely cliquish. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
The German residents, as everywhere, are cliquish too. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations, followed swiftly by criticisms [Updated] | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
On the other hand, sometimes the group can be too cliquish. From Wordnik.com. [The End of an Era - Changing My Venn Diagram - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
I'd heard for years that the volunteer group was very cliquish. From Wordnik.com. [Little Theater in Mexico's Chapala Lakeside] Reference
And he has the reputation of a cliquish control freak to counter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2007] Reference
The SSC is clannish and cliquish and they obviously hate the critics. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 3.] Reference
Should art be the play thing of overeducated and cliquish white people?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
I tried a homschool support group for two years but it was very cliquish. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in the Window, Sewing] Reference
Otherwise, students read their friend's work and it becomes a little cliquish. From Wordnik.com. [Excellent Classroom practices from Mr. Fisher] Reference
Not to be cliquish, but Israelis like me can't stand American Jews like Leiberman. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman On Questioning Obama's Commitment To Israel: "Why Wouldn't I Do That?"] Reference
But with everyone else they just seem too friendly and cliquish to get the true story. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Oh, and all the formerly cliquish kids were too busy rocking the ganj in high school to care. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bryan Caplan’s “Jock/Nerd” Libertarian Theory of Class Conflict:] Reference
The villains always stand alone (The Incredibles) or in cliquish small groups (A Bug's Life). From Wordnik.com. [Is Pixar Socially Conservative? | /Film] Reference
In contrast, women flourish most in notoriously faddish, cliquish domains like the humanities. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-08] Reference
Far away from her cigarettes and her snobbishness, her cliquish friends, her atrocious spelling. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Even thousands of miles away from Western club scenes, a pretentious and cliquish ethos prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Gen X Invades Asia] Reference
Movies don't capture "scenes" very well, at least the word in its most cliquish, zeitgeist-sense. From Wordnik.com. [12/15/01 Tonight I went to] Reference
Erin, a member of our cliquish foursome that is Team Tokyo, is making a pilgrimage to the motherland. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrate Barbecue Diversity, Part 2] Reference
‘Crime literature was shown up as the over-literary affair it had become - a sick, cliquish genre.’. From Wordnik.com. [Jake Arnott and The Long Firm] Reference
I think the use of the best authors as the main judges is a nice twist, but that could get very cliquish. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » If Arthurian legend had fan-fiction…] Reference
Gamblers can pull their sway, in cliquish restive sport. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
They belonged to the same set, and no one was more cliquish than Freeman. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
She's not a cliquish insider, but someone who is really fighting for my values. From Wordnik.com. [BIG BLUE WAVE] Reference
The cliquish guests are rather strange, and no one told her what was on the menu. From Wordnik.com. [Remittance Girl: Erotic Fiction Online] Reference
It could be that you have just unhappily landed in a very cliquish group and you'd thrive elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. News] Reference
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