cliquishness

Definition of cliquishnessnext

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Noun
  • This mutuality of benefit establishes the greatest potential for success.
    Blake D. Morant, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Many of the themes of the nearly two-hour event were about audacity and mutuality, enduring words King used famously in speeches and writing.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Disagreements over the war have disrupted family dinners, upended friendships, and splintered congregations.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For some of you, a casual friendship might turn into a flirtation or even a serious romance.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Indianapolis didn't crack Nextdoor's list of the 20 friendliest cities in Indiana, but its separate ranking of neighborhoods in the Indy metro area finds plenty of cordiality in Central Indiana.
    Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Liberated from this approach to economic warfare, relations with allies may recover some of their former cordiality.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But one suspected the real reason for Huang’s geniality lay elsewhere.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.
    William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
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
  • Those who yearn for peace and stability, commerce and comradery, amity with our friends and neighbors?
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Cliquishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliquishness. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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