How To Use Clannish In A Sentence
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One of the most infamous examples in America of the Scottish tendency to clannishness is the Hatfield and McCoy feud of the 1880s in the Tug River Valley along the West Virginia and Kentucky border.
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It's the clannish attitude which drove my parents and many others far from their heritage.
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This clannishness tends to make interlopers like Swingley, who didn't start racing until he was 36, all the more conspicuous.
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The county is notorious for clannish thinking when it comes to the outside world.
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Film units were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Basque immigrants tended to remain clannish at first, socializing with other Basques - often from the same villages in Europe - and patronizing Basque businesses.
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There were few aircraft and few pilots but most of those pilots had been hand-picked and there was a distinct clannishness in the organization.
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It's a nasty world, Scorsese agrees - a world of too much passion and too little sense, of ancient blood feuds and perilous clannishness.
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The sanctity of traditional ownership and lineage are hoisted like clannish flags.
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Film units were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The English art scene in the 1950s was clannish and especially difficult for a woman to break into.
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But I am here to tell you that swans are preternaturally strong beyond ordinary imagination, clannish, quick to anger, domineering, and that they posses a decided mean streak.
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Then it was that that clannishness, which was his to so extraordinary a degree, asserted itself.
Chapter 19: Transformation
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Scotch of long ago, it is true, but none the less Scotch, with a thousand traits, to say nothing of their tricks of speech and woolly utterance, which nothing less than their Scotch clannishness could have preserved to this late day.
SAMUEL
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The clannish nature of the villagers and townspeople was evident.
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The Morrises were a very "clannish" family, and my grandfather's house was the London centre.
Autobiographical Sketches
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If he had scant sympathy with their social clannishness, he was with them in fighting discrimination.
DARKWATER
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Finnish Americans soon developed a reputation for clannishness and hard work.
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They are insular, cliquey and clannish.
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To them Mizrahi feminists seemed sectorial, their strategy influenced by clannish values rather than by a liberal “universalist” value system.
Mizrahi Feminism in Israel.
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Such increased devoutness and the Huis' tendency to congregate in and around mosques have made them appear clannish to many Han Chinese, Mai said.
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The natural reaction for humans is to be clannish.
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Their so-called clannishness, their solidarity, has many exceptions.
Skinny Legs and All
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The people tend to be traditionally clannish in the rural areas.
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Royal Space - Caters the infrastructural and duty expanse needs for open and clannish enterprises, bicentric and State Govt.
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Highly clannish, these tribes were organized in tight kinship groups with commonly held property and a rough-and-ready sort of representative government regarding matters other than military.
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Caught between a rock and a hard place, Jews were condemned for clinging too closely to their identity and heritage as Jews, for being "clannish," at the same time that they were denounced as overly aggressive, as social climbers who pushed their way into a society that did not welcome them. 13
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Also from ancient times onward, the more tribal or clannish a society, the more resistant it is to change - and the more often pressures for modernizing reforms must come largely from outside or above.
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The essence of the myth is that the English are standoffish, the Welsh are clannish and only the Scots and the Irish mix with anyone.
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these four friends always act clannishly, and don't let us participate in their activities
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I can't stand how limited, how clannish, how narrow-minded they are!
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The atmosphere is subdued and clannish, like the aura inside an exclusive club.
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By 1918, there was suspicion of German Americans and other ethnic groups who were thought to be too clannish and too attached to their Old World cultures.
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The legal profession in France is far more "clannish" than with us, for lawyers have always played a great part in the history of France.
The Days Before Yesterday
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They also are seen as clannish and as a criminal menace.
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It's large scale corporate enterprise and clannishness that aren't very compatible.
Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It's just as hard to penetrate the clannishness of islanders who've lived and played apart from the world for generations.
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‘People are loyal,’ he says, ‘and at the same time clannish - this is my group.’
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Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise.
Poor Man's Rock
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Film units were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Italians were thought to be violent criminals; the Hungarians, Russians, Poles, and various others in the late 19 th and early 20th centuries were characterized as clannish, speaking their own languages, and being a threat to "American civilization".
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Wherever people, even powerful rich people, turn tribal and clannish, honor - as well as its concomitants: respect, pride, and dignity - come into serious play in social interactions.
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clannish loyalty
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A decision by the often clannish management of a small firm to let in outsiders can be monumental.
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Maybe because I'm kind of clannish myself and live here, although I visit these other sections, but I didn't mingle in them enough to give you what I would consider a very true, educated evaluation.
Oral History Interview with James Arthur Jones, November 19, 2003. Interview U-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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They are insular, cliquey and clannish, yet they worm their way into the highest positions of power in their adopted countries.
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Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers.
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Early Finnish Americans had a reputation for being clannish.
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The town, with its nautical history, its foghorns, its steep bluffs and clannish folk, is quintessential Minesota.
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Fierce jests about the Scotch who came to make their fortune off their richer neighbors, about their clannishness and their canniness, and their poverty and their pride, and still lower and coarser jibes about other supposed peculiarities were then still as current as the popular crows of triumph over the French and other similar antipathies; and Kirsteen's advent was attended by many comments of the kind from the sharp young Londoners to whom her accent and her slower speech, and her red hair and her ladyhood were all objects of derision.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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It's kind of clannish if you'll allow me to us that word.
Oral History Interview with James Arthur Jones, November 19, 2003. Interview U-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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As for Mormons, they’re kind of clannish but are quite educated and are rapidly opening up to the rest of society — I expect one of them to be next if a Southern baptist doesn’t make it in.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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clannish" tendencies, have a certain democratic bias as well (chiefly, perhaps, evidenced and fostered by their religious organization); and the Irish, disaffected as they are towards England having so numerous and so close ties, through the emigration movement, with the United
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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The latter are chiefly an expression of the predatory impulse simply; the former are more specifically an expression of that heritage of clannishness which is so large a feature in the temperament of the predatory barbarian.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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Our so-called "clannishness" is not the issue here.
Articles
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clannishness" but also on the "licentiousness" of the Jewish population, manifesting itself in congregating on the streets, and similar grave crimes.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
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Their clannish fights are the backdrop for our battles in the game.
