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cultish

British  
/ ˈkʌltɪ, ˈkʌltɪʃ /

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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However, Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel,” a cultish detour, was a surprise revelation.“That had a deep impact on me,” Tiernan said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

By then, his company had already developed a cultish following.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 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

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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