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Значения термина cliquish на английском

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

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Examples for "snobbish"
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Also, what exactly is even snobbish about what President Obama originally said?
Ebony
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She hated to subject any artist-howeverquestionable his talent-toGarek's snobbish sister.
Millionaire's women
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Behind the pair went an elderly couple, overdressed and snobbish in appearance.
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
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The impudent and snobbish subscriber who will address his victim as follows:-
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
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One is exclusive, snobbish, and narrow, the other is liberal and democratic.
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point / Autobiog...
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News International is an empire built on personal loyalty and clannish defiance.
The Guardian
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The others said we were clannish and stuck-up, but we didn't care.
The Desired Woman
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In 1811 the dead world of clannish localty was fresh in many memories.
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
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Leslie is clannish-herown could never do wrong in her eyes.
Anne's House of Dreams
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Unless they all band together; those captains are a clannish lot.
The Reality Dysfunction
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Carriages, with servants in snobby coats, beset the doors of the theatre.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
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Upper class didn't seem to suit them - it was too snobby.
The Irish Times
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When I first considered listening to audiobooks, I was snobby about it.
The Guardian
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She was still pretty enough, he supposed, if you liked snobby bluebloods.
Running scared
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He sounded so snobby sometimes that he sounded like a 1930s movie.
Coming out
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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
Использование термина cliquish на английском
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They belonged to the same set, and no one was more cliquish than Freeman.
The Life of Froude
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And of course these were Iraqis-verycliquish, very clannish.
Man in the Middle
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Djuna Barnes seems to have acquired an odd, cliquish kind of fame largely because T.S.
The Irish Times
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The German residents, as everywhere, are cliquish too.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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It was that confidence, he reckons, that helped Galvin find his spot in what was a notoriously cliquish dressing-room.
Independent.ie
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The real problem is the cliquish, tunnel-vision intolerance that afflicts too many feminists, who seem unprepared to recognize and analyze ideas.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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But even though it still feels kinda cliquish, I try and go to those places where I can just dance from the spirit.
Ebony
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It was a rather cliquish society, worked with more favour than fairness, and was principally among those girls whose homes lay near to the school.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
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