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clubby

/kluhb-ee/US // ˈklʌb i //UK // (ˈklʌbɪ) //

俱乐部,俱乐部的,会所,俱乐部队

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    club·bi·er, club·bi·est.

    • : characteristic of a club: The room had a warm, clubby atmosphere.
    • : very friendly; intimate; chummy: He became clubby with the bartender, who slipped him many free drinks.
    • : socially exclusive; cliquish: Their group is very clubby and unfriendly.
    • : inclined to join clubs.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inintimate
as inconvivial
as incordial
as inaffable
Antonyms
as inamiable
Antonyms
as inamicable
as infriendly

Examples

  • It was difficult, she said, for “your average resistance tweeter” to dig in and see which candidates had a shot — or which candidates did have a shot, but were being sidelined for sexist or clubby reasons.

  • Doherty is part of a surge young women from Generation Z, the post-Millennial demographic, born between 1997 to 2012, who have broken into the clubby world of venture capital over the past year or so.

  • Beute — whose ordeal triggered some of the events that followed — said he believes fallout from the case could force a reckoning for the lax oversight and clubby nature of Florida’s political system.

  • Fukuda said she was disturbed by the way the decision to replace Mori with Kawabuchi was apparently made behind closed doors, in the typically clubby way that excludes women.

  • That creates its own clubby inefficiencies and unexamined corruption.

  • GLOBAL FRATERNITY The Mostly Male Face of Davos The World Economic Forum is like a fraternity—loud, clubby, and male.

  • But here we have the original home that used "Sandstorm" for clubby Christmas light display in 2006.

  • Gavin previously asserted that Reliable Sources had a "clubby" atmosphere and repeatedly uses a select few Beltway guests.

  • They're the pleasantest people in Three Meadows and we're very clubby.

  • The party addressed didn't look very clubby, but she was too polite to pull the cut direct.

  • We could of talked to plenty o' people here, all right; they were as clubby a gang as I ever seen.

  • It was only a pleasant clubby discussion of the problem of Jim's and Charity's innocence that delayed the jury's verdict.

  • An' it's too broad an' clubby f'r a grizzly, an' the claws are too long f'r the length of the foot.