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cliquish

[ klee-kish, klik-ish ]

adjective

  1. associating exclusively with the members of one's own clique; clannish.
  2. tending to divide into cliques:

    a cliquish neighborhood.

  3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a clique:

    narrow, cliquish notions about art.



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Other Words From

  • cliquish·ly adverb
  • cliquish·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cliquish1

First recorded in 1850–55; clique + -ish 1
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Example Sentences

It’s a very cliquish environment and everybody kind of knows everybody.

They set up a society that feels like high school on speed—oppressive and cliquish, only way more so.

But I would rather see the inevitable mistakes made by a democratic rather than a cliquish system of voting.

Any system, in fact, which involves “double election” tends to make the body concerned hidebound and cliquish.

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