| 单词 | clannishness |
| 释义 | clannishness (once / 81513 pages) n WORD FAMILY clannish: clannishly, clannishness+/clan: clannish, clans USAGE EXAMPLESThere is no legacy of slavery or Jim Crow, and therefore an aura of innocence can be maintained amid the dysfunction and sentimentality and clannishness. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) Family life opens the door to self-dealing clannishness: parents hoard for their children; siblings and spouses favor one another over the collective. The New Yorker(Sep 26, 2016) The only child of a loveless marriage between French-speaking refugees, Rachel chafes against the clannishness of St. Thomas’s Jewish community. Washington Post(Aug 04, 2015) n tendency to associate with only a select group Syn|Hyper cliquishness, exclusiveness snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism the trait of condescending to those of lower social status |
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