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.”

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• “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.”

  The Washington Post: BOOK WORLD - February 6, 2011

• “Where do end-timers get the idea that Christ would buy into a cliquish mentality anyway?”

  The Huffington Post: Russ Wellen: What Would End-Timers Do Without the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation?

• “On the other hand, sometimes the group can be too cliquish.”

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• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Growing Pangs

• “Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist.”

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• “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.”

  Will Saletan’s Moderation

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Farewell to a Creative Agitator

• “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.”

  The Washington Post: In history of Hawaiian leaders, Daniel Inouye stands alone

• “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”

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