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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "clannish" in a sentence

    clannish example sentences

    clannish


    1. “That will hold you in good stead among them; they are quite clannish I find


    2. people, they are very clannish, and what he says about trust is absolutely


    3. They had always world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the kinsmen might be


    4. They are of Italian descent, largely--the Rozzis of Cleveland, the Zambellis of Pennsylvania, the Ruggieris of France--and they are clannish and recessive and tight-lipped and gruff


    5. But there are two special reasons for opposing this Chinese immigration; one is, that it consists of unmarried men, homeless and vagrant, and our country needs homes; the other is, that they are exceptionally clannish, refuse to associate and assimilate with us, and remain, after thirty years, as much an alien race as when they first arrived


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    Synonyms for "clannish"

    clannish cliquish clubby snobbish snobby related family kindred consanguine close narrow exclusive disdainful haughty insular

    "clannish" definitions

    characteristic of a clan especially in being unified


    befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior