clique
noun
a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
cliquism
-
a word derived from
clique.
Example Sentences
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"There is no cliquism about it," he remarked.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
He held aloof from the Romantic movement, less from dislike to its extravagances and its cliquism, than from genuine weakness and inability to appreciate the defects of the classic tradition.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
How different from the dull formalism of a merely nominal assent to certain accredited dogmas of a party, on the one hand, and from the mere esprit de corps of cliquism, on the other.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
