cliquery

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Instances of loyalty to the smaller group as against the larger are innumerable, ranging from the strife of ' organized labor ' with ' organized capital ' through intra-labor-union and intracorporate conflicts, to the cliqueries and cabals of departmental groups in universities and the petty snobberies of medical men of different ' schools in their dealings with one another and the laity."
• "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."
• "Democracy, Whiggery, and Cliquery will attract their elements and foment divisions among the people, to accomplish fancied schemes and accumulate power, while poverty, driven to despair, like hunger forcing its way through a wall, will break through the statutes of men, to save life and mend the breach in prison glooms."
• "What garnered contempt from the pair were the criteria upon which admission to the poshocracy depended, criteria founded on the cliquery of the English upper classes, a cliquery that, disseminated as 'team spirit' (14) in public schools and perpetuated by the most privileged and credulous of undergraduates, found its way full-circle in the mentality of the graduating elite."
• "...or to the nursery assistant who cannot progress to a more senior level because taking a full-time job would mean losing more in childcare costs than she would gain in salary, as it does to the vice-president or deputy CEO blocked from the top job by covert discrimination or male cliquery."