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clannish
[ klan-ish ]
clannish
/ ˈklænɪʃ /
adjective
- of or characteristic of a clan
- tending to associate closely within a limited group to the exclusion of outsiders; cliquish
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Derived Forms
- ˈclannishly, adverb
- ˈclannishness, noun
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Other Words From
- clannish·ly adverb
- clannish·ness noun
- un·clannish adjective
- un·clannish·ly adverb
- un·clannish·ness noun
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Example Sentences
For better or worse, we are clannish beings, and this has done much to shape our history.
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Naturally so clannish a woman as Mrs. Gano had not let the years go by without much solicitude on behalf of her orphan grandchild.
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Any infringement upon this moral code was punished by death to the woman and to her out-clannish lover.
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Unfortunately, also, Negroes are not by nature altruistic, not clannish like the Jews.
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They proved much more clannish than the Bohemians and more reluctant to conform to American customs.
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They remain, however, very clannish and according to the Federal Industrial Commission, without the "desire to fuse socially."
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