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• s  characteristic of a clan especially in being unified
  clannish loyalty
• s  befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

• cliquish
• clubby
• snobbish
• snobby

News & Articles

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• James 'Whitey' Bulger convicted of multiple gangland crimes
  South Boston's former mob boss is found guilty of murder, extortion and other charges in a trial many saw as exorcising a city's ghosts. He faces life in prison. James "Whitey" Bulger ran the clannish streets of South Boston for generations, an Irish crime boss from the brick projects along the waterfront whose rule was an open secret.        
  Aug. 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Ibrahim Idris in AllAfrica.com
  Speaking on the way forward, former Governor Idris said, "Kogi State is supposed to be a peaceful state but we have some problems and this has to do with politics and the various clannish heads in the state. We have some people, who believe that...
• Greg Stumbo in Kentucky.com
  We tend to support people that we know,said state Rep. Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg and a Clinton supporter. "We're a very clannish state in a lot of ways."
• Dmitry Medvedev in The Moscow Times
  This is a double-pronged task. It is very difficult to create proper, modern conditions for education and business and to destroy the corruption and clannish nepotism that has formed in the Caucasus over the centuries,Medvedev said at a...