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cliquery

noun

Etymology

From clique + -ery.

  1. borrowed from clique
  2. suffixed as cliquery — “clique + ery”

Definitions

  1. A social structure characterized by cliques.

    • He was a keen observer of manners, and had a wholesome contempt for the little cliqueries which are generally formed by persons of narrow mind and sparse acquirements.
    • As mentioned earlier, in the strange cliqueries of South Africa, even a wayward white remains white, and is judged by standards of his own tribe.

  2. Cliquishness.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA