Clannish [adjective]

Definition of Clannish:

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Sentence/Example of Clannish:

Naturally so clannish a woman as Mrs. Gano had not let the years go by without much solicitude on behalf of her orphan grandchild.

Any infringement upon this moral code was punished by death to the woman and to her out-clannish lover.

Unfortunately, also, Negroes are not by nature altruistic, not clannish like the Jews.

They proved much more clannish than the Bohemians and more reluctant to conform to American customs.

They remain, however, very clannish and according to the Federal Industrial Commission, without the "desire to fuse socially."

It was a caste system with social levels sharply marked off, and families united by clannish ties.

They talk Hebrew among themselves and Arabic with natives, and they are as clannish as Scotchmen.

As a result, driven back upon themselves from every side, the traitors and their families became clannish.

In most cities the members of the legal profession form a clique, and are very clannish.

You remember what I told you about her clannish feeling—how she loves to quietly exalt her family name?