cliquishness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliquishness
Noun
  • By shedding outdated stories about what love should look like and writing new ones rooted in mutuality, safety and joy.
    Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • The culture that runs from truth, the culture too scared to seek the strength of mutuality.
    Christine Winter, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Multiple sources also tell PEOPLE that Lively's friendship with another longtime pal, Gigi Hadid, has cooled in recent months.
    Benjamin VanHoose, People.com, 15 May 2025
  • However, Levi wants to stay and even forms a friendship with Vito, the most eccentric kid of all, who happens to be Marenka's son.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • As the president expresses agitation toward district judges who block his policies nationwide, Trump so far has maintained more cordiality with Roberts, refusing to attack him personally.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Such cordiality was impossible this time, and Dirk Hauser — head of media for Bayern’s academy then and to this day — had to keep the two men apart, in different parts of the old stadium.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • As part of this distancing, Seoul promotes a narrative (as seen in its recent monuments and museums) that emphasizes Japan’s wartime violence and highlights Korean amity with China.
    Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2015
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“Cliquishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliquishness. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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