clannishadjective
uk/ˈklæn.ɪʃ/us/ˈklæn.ɪʃ/disapprovingused to describe members of a group of people or society who are friendly to each other, but not to people outside the group
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Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- leave sb out in the cold idiom
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
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clannishly
adverb uk/ˈklæn.ɪʃ.li/us/ˈklæn.ɪʃ.li/disapproving
clannishness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈklæn.ɪʃ.nəs/us/ˈklæn.ɪʃ.nəs/disapproving
Examples from literature
- As a result, driven back upon themselves from every side, the traitors and their families became clannish.
- In most cities the members of the legal profession form a clique, and are very clannish.
- These two societies seem to have the true clannish spirit, and a hatred and rivalry exist between them that remind one of the stories of the Middle Ages.
- They are devoted to their children, strong in their family feeling, even to remote relationships, and clannish in their community life.
- We have been wanting to have an old-time frolic, but didn't wish to seem selfish and clannish.