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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

“Severance” opens many passages into Lumon Industries’ cultish mythology, many of which begin with weird, sad stories.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 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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