How To Use Clubby In A Sentence
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A place to enjoy big steaks and seafood in a clubby atmosphere; more delicate eaters can order the chunky lobster bisque and plenty of veggies à la carte.
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Here the publishing industry is insular and clubby, everyone either knows everyone else or went to school with everyone else; it's difficult for a rank outsider to break in, but not impossible yet.
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He has infused raw excitement and energy into golf, and elevated it from the clubby, elite preserve of conservative, white males to global popularity.
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In other words, many of the snobby, clubby vibes that tend to waft around conventional classical music are absent.
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This deal will confirm the perception that Senators are clubby, timid, and self-congratulatory.
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Against this background, the clubby French military elite hunted for a traitor.
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I know that it's too much to ask that this clubby little world be exposed, but we have to try.
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Politics is clubby, careerist, and cynical.
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It was cool under the porch, and the dirt smelled comfortable, the candles smelled clubby and familiar.
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Yale may have traded its clubby atmosphere for a more liberal multiculti image.
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A provincial man, he perceived more clearly than most that his clubby colleagues in London needed to expand their horizons and broaden their base.
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The surroundings range from clubby to ultramodern.
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People in the clubby world of hedge funds think that's the largest launch on record.
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I'm touring for my own satisfaction and want to create a clubby feel, an intimate atmosphere.
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To his supporters, he is a truth teller, a policy innovator who is liberated enough from the department's clubby confines to speak his mind, even at the risk of upsetting diplomatic strategies.
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But a number of commentators noted that the accusations against Mr. Strauss-Kahn pointed not only to elitism in the Socialist party - the "caviar left" - but also to what they termed clubby corruption and even immorality.
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We hear a lot today about the brave new world of globalisation and the information revolution sweeping away the old boys network and the clubby hierarchies of yesteryear.
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Indeed, some argue that the involvement of a private firm has brought much-needed transparency to a secretive, clubby world.
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Kurtz has gotten very defensive about the 'clubby' angle in my piece but he's also assuming that that was meant as a criticism.
Howard Kurtz Takes On Politico's Patrick Gavin (VIDEO)
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The atmosphere was clubby and expensive, which was a spectacular contrast from the apartment where Hoffman lived.
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The toughest week for a big-league clubby is the one before spring training.
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By the time we had reached the halfway point, our carriage had taken on a positive, clubby atmosphere.
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At the same time, the stock evolved from the clubby jaeger silhouette to a distinctive slender shape.
Rifle That Made America
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‘It is often accused of being too clubby on the one hand and too bureaucratic on the other,’ she said.
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At the sight of Evandar it whimpered, holding out clawed and clubby paws.
A TIME OF WAR
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It has wide open public areas that women tend to prefer instead of closed lounges where men are being clubby.
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Finally, I think the clubby atmosphere of the boardroom makes it difficult for a true meritocracy to exist.
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Although it has a large-screen TV, Miso pulls a youngish, clubby clientele more than a sports crowd.
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The skills needed for law enforcement - a clubby culture of sharing information among agents - often means disaster in intelligence work.
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Bring together the righteous, the greedy and the the 'clubby' and you have all the ingredients for a good dramatic play.
Financial Reform: The Righteous, the Greedy and the Clubby -- An Insider's View
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we got rather clubby
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He in many ways personifies that country's clubby business elite.
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Responding to some who wonder if Dealbook may be a bit to "clubby" with it subjects, Cain rejects the premise and says it is New York Times "journalism for the financial community.
Andy Plesser: 'Incredible Appetite for Financial Journalism' Will Drive Expansion of New York Times Dealbook in 2011
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For example, you will never catch me at a clubby club where people are taking body shots and barfing on the floor.
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By valuing popularity, organizations may be promoting a certain 'clubby' atmosphere that mimics school culture" rather than rewarding merit, the researchers write.
Popularity Has Its Benefits
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Today, each 22-passenger, self-propelled carriage includes a fully stocked bar, panoramic windows and clubby, tropical wooden interiors.
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This is a laid back clubby bar that attracts middle class Russians and moneyed ex-pats plus local and foreign students into techno and acid jazz.
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WAXMAN: They want it all think they're diverse but if you actually look at the way things work, it just tends to be a kind of clubby atmosphere.
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While trying to blend in at Chrysler, Zetsche is slowly insinuating himself into Detroit's clubby community.
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There is a clubby feel to the evening as the 40 or so people separate into teams, and jot down their answers as Dave, the quizmaster, shoots questions.
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While online debates can be splintered and diffuse and sometimes clubby, I'm heartened by the sheer number of them.
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This was often through a clubby system where friends on board committees would champion a high salary for the chief executive.
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No, not a loner, it's just that I'm not a very clubby person.
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If you were watching closely, you could even catch the occasional moment when the crowd's woozy sway, spurred on by a few almost clubby backbeats, slid into actual dancing.
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In the clubby confines of America's boardrooms, the sky is the limit.
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LATER: Jay Rosen finds in this post by Jeff Bercovici the poster child of what he calls the guild mentality and what I call the clubbyness of journalism.
The public press: Transparency is our goal « BuzzMachine
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Responding to some who wonder if Dealbook may be a bit to "clubby" with it subjects, Cain rejects the premise and says it is New York Times"journalism for the financial community.
Andy Plesser: 'Incredible Appetite for Financial Journalism' Will Drive Expansion of New York Times Dealbook in 2011
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The symposium was a clubby bastion of the aristocratic male citizenry, but as Ewen Bowie writes in The Oxford History of the Classical World, "melic poetry was at home everywhere," and there is evidence to suggest that rounds of lyric poetry became a standard form of entertainment at after-dinner soirees all across the Aegean archipelago.
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