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Meanings of clannishness in anglès

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Tendency to associate with only a select group.

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        Examples for "exclusiveness"
        Examples for "exclusiveness"
        1
        All privileges are valuable in proportion to the exclusiveness of their enjoyment.
        The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12
        2
        I wish the alliance, and think it better to maintain the exclusiveness.
        Evan Harrington — Volume 4
        3
        There was a sense of luxury-ofexclusiveness-inpassing over its smooth surface.
        The Lady of Big Shanty
        4
        This rigid exclusiveness has not militated against the prosperity of the club.
        Inns and Taverns of Old London
        5
        And exclusiveness, all the pride of race must disappear before such considerations.
        Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
        1
        She describes men's behaviour as "needy cliquishness" but extols the virtues of her own clique.
        The Irish Times
        2
        It was that cliquishness; he wanted to be a part of something, could never find anything to be part of.
        Life
        Usage of clannishness in anglès
        1
        Even the Scotch and the Devonians weaken a little in their clannishness.
        The New Machiavelli
        2
        One of the first points to be taken account of is his clannishness.
        Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
        3
        That tends to contribute to the clannishness non-Cubans sometimes complain about.
        Darkly Dreaming Dexter
        4
        Perhaps it was the Scots clannishness that attracted them.
        With Our Army in Palestine
        5
        But the clannishness of sex has its unwritten laws.
        Dream Days
        6
        There is all too little clannishness among us.
        Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
        7
        Then it was that that clannishness, which was his to so extraordinary a degree, asserted itself.
        The Iron Heel
        8
        To understand the strength of the feeling of clannishness in this district one must reside amongst the people.
        The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
        9
        From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness.
        The Theory of the Leisure Class
        10
        Grinding monopoly, harsh treatment, prejudice that drives into clannishness and race hatred-thesewill make of the Slavs a peril.
        Aliens or Americans?
        11
        Their closeness and even clannishness made it one for all and all for one, allowing them to afford to fight.
        Teaching the pig to dance: a memoir
        12
        With rare unselfishness, or, if you will, with Celtic clannishness, he did a good deal to make Oscar's name known.
        Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
        13
        This "clannishness" of Scottish business firms, past and present, used to be supposed to be crucial to their success.
        How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
        14
        He liked the American clannishness, and he sighed to think of the utter lack of family affection in his own life.
        One Day / A sequel to 'Three Weeks'
        15
        Their clannishness was inherited from their Scotch ancestors, and the wild, rugged mountains lent themselves perfectly to warfare among the clans.
        Blue Ridge Country
        16
        To gain entrance to the class, the candidate had to be gifted with clannishness, massiveness, ferocity, unscrupulousness, and tenacity of purpose.
        The Theory of the Leisure Class
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        Clannishness through the time