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Meanings of clubby in English

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

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Effusively sociable.

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Examples for "clubbish"
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But even as the industry grew, it remained small and clubbish.
Wired
Usage of clubby in English
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Can you spot which man would want to belong among clubby types?
The Irish Times
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Featured vocalists transform a patchwork of urban electronics into clubby pop anthems.
The Guardian
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The clubby reminiscences will infuriate an awful lot of people this weekend.
The Irish Times
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This sold-out tour of substantial, but still clubby, venues feels valedictory.
The Guardian
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There were fieldstone accents and rich rugs and clubby leather sofas and armchairs.
Nothing to lose
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That clubby system is now under threat after a falling out between BPC's members.
Reuters
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This comment produced just the right sort of clubby, knowing smiles from his interlocutors.
The Diamond Age
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Hello boozy lunch. Inside, there's that clubby feeling of having stepped into deep indoors.
The Irish Times
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Downstairs from the tall-windowed restaurant in the clubby den below there's a bomb-shelter feeling.
The Irish Times
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When he took office, Washington's business community was old, white, established, clubby, and complacent.
Disintegration: the splintering of black america
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He talked about why it was time to get back to his underground clubby roots.
The Irish Times
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The room reeked of self-contentment, smugness, a clubby bonhomie.
The Kingmaker
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Like Jones said, these bankers are pretty clubby.
Storm Front
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Cross-shareholdings will make clubby industries even more incestuous.
Reuters
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They could be golf-club captains, Rotary Club big-wigs or some other sort of clubby business guys.
The Irish Times
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It all had an engagingly clubby atmosphere, but how it stays in business I have no idea.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
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