Cliquish

The 'cliquish', 'clanish', and 'spooky' on-the-job behavior that some have used to characterize LAPD is manifesting itself more and more in the City's fire department. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where do end-timers get the idea that Christ would buy into a cliquish mentality anyway? ❋ Russ Wellen (2011)

It's spoken with such a cliquish tone by people who look down their noses at movies meant to provoke laughter — like a movie meant to draw tears is so much more meritable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This was the man, after all, who fought the cliquish math world for three decades to earn respect for the branch of mathematics he created, fractal geometry; who made a career of tweaking posh academic noses; who hit 75 before earning tenure at Yale, and who, as early as 1962, argued that the math on Wall Street would lead to the kind of financial disaster that hit in 1987 and again in 2008. ❋ Richard Hudson (2010)

A professor might say something like "The reason oil and water don't mix is that the water molecules are cliquish: They like to stick together, and crowd the oil out." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Greene: Oh, a lot of times you go into a show where the cast has worked together for a long time and they can be very cliquish. ❋ Unknown (2011)

New debuts are George Friedman he's the founder and CEO of the firm Stratfor, which complies and publishes geopolitical data and his new book that looks ahead -- politically, socially, economically -- at the next ten years ... and McGregor's take on the very, well, cliquish Communist politicos in China and their grip on power. ❋ Christopher Schoppa (2011)

On the cliquish Senate floor, Inouye enters with great dignity, applauds speeches by tapping his cane on the ground and receives polite greetings from his colleagues. ❋ Jason Horowitz (2010)

In this respect it becomes more like a fraternity or sorority than a licensing organization, but while potentially cliquish I think it could be fun and successful. on January 14, 2009 at 6: 28 am dirty ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was also president of our cliquish YWCA club, the Mauna Loas. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

The series begins in a place called Deep Valley with Betsy and Tacy at age 5 and then follows them until they're in their 20s — we watch as they have picnics, climb trees, perform songs, quarrel with their sisters, grieve over a dead sibling, seriously miscalculate how long their homework will take, get cliquish, travel by themselves and think about boys and, eventually, husbands. ❋ Alexandra Mullen (2011)

I mean, the NYRB does publish a lot of great stuff, but it also publishes a lot of self-indulgent preachy leftist hot air and cliquish puff-piece circle-jerkery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Snipers are a breed apart even within the Marines, a cliquish group of specialized killers who stalk in teams as small as two men, each dependent on the other for survival. ❋ Michael M. Phillips (2011)

On the other hand, sometimes the group can be too cliquish. ❋ Unknown (2009)