Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to a clique, set, or party; disposed to form cliques; actuated by a petty party spirit. Also
cliqueish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to a
clique - adjective tending to associate with a small and exclusive group
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
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Examples
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The 'cliquish', 'clanish', and 'spooky' on-the-job behavior that some have used to characterize LAPD is manifesting itself more and more in the City's fire department.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Where do end-timers get the idea that Christ would buy into a cliquish mentality anyway?
Russ Wellen: What Would End-Timers Do Without the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation? Russ Wellen 2011
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Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist.
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I mean, the NYRB does publish a lot of great stuff, but it also publishes a lot of self-indulgent preachy leftist hot air and cliquish puff-piece circle-jerkery.
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The series begins in a place called Deep Valley with Betsy and Tacy at age 5 and then follows them until they're in their 20s — we watch as they have picnics, climb trees, perform songs, quarrel with their sisters, grieve over a dead sibling, seriously miscalculate how long their homework will take, get cliquish, travel by themselves and think about boys and, eventually, husbands.
Growing Pangs Alexandra Mullen 2011
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Where do end-timers get the idea that Christ would buy into a cliquish mentality anyway?
Russ Wellen: What Would End-Timers Do Without the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation? Russ Wellen 2011
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New debuts are George Friedman he's the founder and CEO of the firm Stratfor, which complies and publishes geopolitical data and his new book that looks ahead -- politically, socially, economically -- at the next ten years ... and McGregor's take on the very, well, cliquish Communist politicos in China and their grip on power.
BOOK WORLD - February 6, 2011 Christopher Schoppa 2011
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Where do end-timers get the idea that Christ would buy into a cliquish mentality anyway?
Russ Wellen: What Would End-Timers Do Without the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation? Russ Wellen 2011
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Where do end-timers get the idea that Christ would buy into a cliquish mentality anyway?
Russ Wellen: What Would End-Timers Do Without the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation? Russ Wellen 2011
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On the other hand, sometimes the group can be too cliquish.
The End of an Era - Changing My Venn Diagram - SpouseBUZZ 2009
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