cliquish

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

cli=quish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective cliquish has 1 sense

cliquish(s = adj.all) clannish, clubby, snobbish, snobby - befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior; Array

Derived form noun cliquishness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cliquish, a.

Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

cliquish

arrogant, clannish, cliquey, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, elect, ethnocentric, exclusive, haughty, scornful, select, selective, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, withering

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