us-and-them
adjDefinitions
Being or pertaining to a divisive belief whereby those outside one's immediate circle are…
Being or pertaining to a divisive belief whereby those outside one's immediate circle are regarded as enemies.
- Good football teams always have an us-and-them mentality; there are the 45 players and their coaches, and then there is everybody else.
- […] one of the major concerns by staff is the lack of social contact with an SMT and an 'us and them' syndrome developing.
- We described above how a solution to the problem of interpersonal feuding has been to devolve such feuds to an authority such as the police. But what if the police behave in an us-and-them way?
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for us-and-them. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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