cultish

/ ˈkʌltɪ, ˈkʌltɪʃ /

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

• cultishly adverb

Example Sentences

Elordi’s roles in lusty titles including the cultish Euphoria, the provocative Saltburn and the impressionistic Priscilla—as well as the teen juggernaut The Kissing Booth, which launched him in 2018—have drawn on his endless-summer good looks, the kind that belong on a surfboard.

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"It was what it looked like, which was extremely cultish - this group of girls around this charismatic leader, and they put him to bed at night," one victim said.

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Linguist Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, explains people can "erect a cult around anything, as long as you can inject it with fear and an 'us-versus-them' mentality".

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Of course, I’m hardly the first person to notice the strange, almost cultish loyalty of so many of our elected officials to his dangerous way of thinking.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill is the most striking example yet of just how monolithic the once ideologically heterogenous Republican Party has become—and how profoundly unprincipled, to the point of cultish.

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