clique
noun
a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
Example Sentences
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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 also breeds a certain kind of cliquishness and backbiting.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2017
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
And when you call them out on their cliquishness, they get sanctimonious about it?
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2014
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 Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
