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cliquishness

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“There’s a lot of norm-building, a lot of cliquishness, a lot of jockeying for status,” Jaana Juvonen, a developmental psychologist at U.C.L.A., explained.

From The New Yorker Oct. 14, 2019

It’s about woman power, but also about celebrity, cliquishness, hair and makeup.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2015

The last week has been, if nothing else, a good warning to all of us about the pitfalls of cliquishness in the indie dev scene and among the reporters who cover it.

From Forbes Sep. 4, 2014

The other expats he meets seem uniformly obnoxious, particularly those connected with A Small World, an invitation-only networking group that goes global with the cliquishness of high school.

From Slate May 5, 2012

Certain it is that they have offended by their exclusiveness; by the narrowing down of interest; by the cliquishness of those who are specialists in piety or ritual.

From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold