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cliquey

/ ˈklɪkɪ, ˈkliːkɪ /

adjective

  1. exclusive, confined to a small group; forming cliques

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“In church people can be really cliquey,” Batts said.

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It conveys a cliquey, clubby feeling that does not suggest openness to those who voice alternative views.

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While Chan believes there’s a lot to be celebrated with regard to the poetry scene in Seattle, she also said the community needs to evolve to make the scene less “cliquey” and uplift nonwhite poets in similar ways.

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Even so, we lost three co-workers this past year because of the cliquey, toxic workplace.

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Yet the movie’s real drama occurs not on the stairway to heaven, but in the terrestrial halls of high school, where Darby wears black clothing and sneers at her cliquey classmates.

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