clubbiness

[kluhb-ee-nis]

noun

1. the quality of being socially exclusive or cliquish.

2. the quality of being congenial, cozy, or sociable.

Example Sentences

In Pinyon Crest, and in its adjacent settlement, Pinyon Pines, one senses that the residents have rejected clubbiness in favor of invisibility and anonymity.

From New York Times

To enact their agenda, every Chicago mayor must navigate the city’s 50-member City Council, a body known for its clubbiness, its members’ frequent criminal indictments and the immense control it can exert over development.

From New York Times

Beyond happenstance or the clubbiness of conservative politics, the key figures, institutions and ideologies of Eastman’s life have converged in the Jan. 6 hearings to a remarkable degree.

From Los Angeles Times

She cites the clubbiness between journalists and politicians in the pre-Watergate era, which afforded politicians a level of privacy that, as public servants, they simply weren’t entitled to.

From New York Times

However, a certain clubbiness attends some of these references, as when he names the restaurants where key conversations occur, even including, in one case, the menu highlights:

From New York Times