clannish
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a clan.
clannishly
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a word derived from
clannish.
Example Sentences
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But being a revolutionary in a business as clannishly traditional as Broadway can lose you Tony voters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision of his clannishly normal classmates, he makes himself the best gymnast in the school, as well as the best swimmer, diver and the best student.
From Time Magazine Archive
Manhattan's hard-bitten police reporters clannishly resent invasions on their beat, whether by some general-assignment upstart from the city staff 'or by a gadget called TV.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to abandon Orr’s tent would be to abandon Orr, who would have been spurned and humiliated clannishly by these four simple-minded officers waiting to move in.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
He loved his family clannishly, and he was rejoiced that they were all again near to him.
From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
