cultish

British

/ ˈkʌltɪ, ˈkʌltɪʃ /

adjective

intended to appeal to a small group of fashionable people

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Other Word Forms

cultishly adverb

Example Sentences

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By then, his company had already developed a cultish following.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

You’d think a show that follows the transition from soccer champions to cultish cannibals would want to start us off with pure, innocent girls to emphasize the severity of their journey.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

Last season, trapped inside Lumon's brutalist architecture and sanitised walls, crunching mysterious numbers for the "Macrodata Refinement team", the team was fed cultish Soviet-esque propaganda about company founder Kier Eagan and his family.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

He was the rubber-limbed, unchained id of “Seinfeld,” the most popular sitcom of its era and a cultural phenomenon cultish in its fervor but too massive to really be considered a cult.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

Heather Schwedel spent a week parading her Stanley cup around New York City to see if she could gain insight into its cultish following—and it did not go as planned.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2024

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