[
US
/ˈkɫænɪʃ/
]
[ UK /klˈænɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /klˈænɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
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characteristic of a clan especially in being unified
clannish loyalty
How To Use clannish In A Sentence
- A decision by the often clannish management of a small firm to let in outsiders can be monumental.
- I can't stand how limited, how clannish, how narrow-minded they are!
- The atmosphere is subdued and clannish, like the aura inside an exclusive club.
- By 1918, there was suspicion of German Americans and other ethnic groups who were thought to be too clannish and too attached to their Old World cultures.
- The legal profession in France is far more "clannish" than with us, for lawyers have always played a great part in the history of France. The Days Before Yesterday
- They also are seen as clannish and as a criminal menace.
- It's large scale corporate enterprise and clannishness that aren't very compatible. Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- It's just as hard to penetrate the clannishness of islanders who've lived and played apart from the world for generations.
- ‘People are loyal,’ he says, ‘and at the same time clannish - this is my group.’
- Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise. Poor Man's Rock
