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Grammar : Adj
Spell : klan-ish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈklæn ɪʃ



Definition of clannish

Origin :
  • "disposed to adhere closely to one another," 1747, from clan + -ish. Related: Clannishly; clannishness.
  • adj exclusive, select
Example sentences :
  • In the first place this interesting bird is a clannish fellow.
  • Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
  • Norfolk men are clannish, and Horbury's evidence carried weight.
  • Extract from : « The Shrieking Pit » by Arthur J. Rees
  • "Then the Highlanders are as clannish as ever," cried the General.
  • Extract from : « Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers » by Ian Maclaren
  • But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Wild » by Jack London
  • They are national in form and colour, but clannish in opinion.
  • Extract from : « Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry » by Thomas Davis
  • The contracting of a marriage is not so much an individual as it is a clannish affair.
  • Extract from : « The Syrian Christ » by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
  • The burying-places in the East are clannish or church possessions.
  • Extract from : « The Syrian Christ » by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
  • You haven't been up to your usual form of futile and clannish conversation.
  • Extract from : « Dodo's Daughter » by E. F. Benson
  • The one were as turbulent, clannish, fierce, and barbarous as the other.
  • Extract from : « A History of England » by Charles Oman
  • The higher type of man is firm but not quarrelsome; sociable, but not clannish.
  • Extract from : « The Sayings of Confucius » by Confucius

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