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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Recent Examples of cliquey The Friends set was notorious for being cliquey and insular. Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliquey
Adjective
  • Will that mean a five-year, $150 million deal or a more club-friendly contract around $130 million?
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Delhi is motivated by revisiting historical connections with Afghanistan, securing potential economic and trade access to Central Asia, and establishing a friendly presence on Pakistan’s western flank with potential strategic benefits.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 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
  • But after the offense scored just one goal against Uxbridge, Quinn and the coaching staff made the move to push Schneider – one of the Porkers’ best finishers – back up to her familiar center-forward position against Canton, along with a couple of other changes.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Which means the vagaries of late October are pretty familiar for this franchise and the bulk of these players.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The way the members of Seventeen are so close-knit and truly like brothers is something their fans, known as Carats, adore.
    Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Their neighborhood and school make up a small and close-knit community where people know each other.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Cliquey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliquey. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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