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cultish

British  
/ ˈkʌltɪʃ, ˈkʌltɪ- /

adjective

  1. intended to appeal to a small group of fashionable people

"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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That cultish dynamic would come up again throughout my life, as I moved from Oklahoma to university and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

You’d think a show that follows the transition from soccer champions to cultish cannibals would want to start us off with pure, innocent girls to emphasize the severity of their journey.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025

The crowd for “Whiplash” is growing, and he’s also hoping to add the ill-received but cultish “Babylon” to the tour soon enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Last season, trapped inside Lumon's brutalist architecture and sanitised walls, crunching mysterious numbers for the "Macrodata Refinement team", the team was fed cultish Soviet-esque propaganda about company founder Kier Eagan and his family.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

Heather Schwedel spent a week parading her Stanley cup around New York City to see if she could gain insight into its cultish following—and it did not go as planned.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2024

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