cliquey

as in cliquish
bound together by feelings of very close association found the people at the brokerage house to be just as cliquey as a gaggle of high school cheerleaders

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Adjective
  • This friendly caller is helping seniors feel less lonely, The Wall Street Journal reports.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • This is a guide that is both a friendly flower refresher course for the veteran gardener and a wonderful introduction to flowers for the novice.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jews, because human beings are and always will be clannish.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • This sort of soft, clannish corruption is not a coat of paint that can be stripped from the protectionist architecture; the dysfunction infests the very foundations of it.
    David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This incremental model allows firms to evolve while maintaining familiar strategies.
    Seth Price, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Pritzker and Emanuel are nationally familiar names.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • West Texas saw an influx of almost 50 cases, and health officials attributed the drastic uptick to a close-knit, under vaccinated Mennonite community.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
  • The stepmom/daughter relationship Zaya and Gabrielle share seems to be close-knit.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 May 2025
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“Cliquey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliquey. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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