ADJECTIVE
- befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
How To Use cliquish In A Sentence
- It offers facile encouragement to youths wishing to rebel against cliquish conformity and be true to themselves. Times, Sunday Times
- Their patronising, cliquish self-regard has repeatedly been exposed as charlatanry.
- Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist. Congratulations, followed swiftly by criticisms [Updated] | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
- On the other hand, sometimes the group can be too cliquish. The End of an Era - Changing My Venn Diagram - SpouseBUZZ
- It's tempting to dismiss cliquishness as a relic from high school, along with midterms, lockers, and prom dates.
- A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems.
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- Moreover, what makes this putative power even more potent is that it is believed to be clandestine and cliquish.
