Other Word Forms
- cliquishly adverb
- cliquishness noun
Etymology
Origin of cliquish
Example Sentences
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The interactions among these writers, artists, scholars and sensual adventurers made for a cauldron of contradictions — loving and heartbreaking, productive and chaotic, gossipy and protective, open-minded and cliquish.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
The agreement typified another problem in Food: a cliquish culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2020
Beyond this core pair, the characterizations are mostly flat: cliquish students, stuffy authority figures and clueless grown-ups.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020
In 2015, after a number of departures, Fortune published an article in which former employees complained about a cliquish, “mean girls” corporate culture.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
It was a rather cliquish society, worked with more favour than fairness, and was principally among those girls whose homes lay near to the school.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
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