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clannish

/klan-ish/US // ˈklæn ɪʃ //UK // (ˈklænɪʃ) //

氏族式的,氏族性,氏族,氏族的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a clan.
    • : inclined to associate exclusively with the members of one's own group; cliquish: the clannish behavior of the original members of the country club.
    • : imbued with or influenced by the sentiments, prejudices, or the like, of a clan.

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Examples

  • For better or worse, we are clannish beings, and this has done much to shape our history.

  • 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."