Explore Clannish through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like joint or clubby. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Clannish in a sentence
Clannish meaning
- Of or related to a clan.
- Socially exclusive.
Using Clannish
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or related to a clan. | Socially exclusive.
- Useful related words include: joint, cliquish, clubby, snobbish.
- In the example corpus, clannish often appears in combinations such as: clannish and.
Context around Clannish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clannish
- In this selection, "clannish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shares, boundaries, tendencies and ties stand out and add context to how "clannish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be very clannish and the and centuries the clannish guild of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clannish" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clannish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ortom shares clannish ties with Tashaku. (6 words)
In the close knit and clannish Cornwall of the time this was sometimes at his own risk. (17 words)
Hon. Chinedum Orji in his determination to build a legislature that will guarantee the wellbeing of all Abians devoid of political or clannish boundaries. (24 words)
But we want to also thank God and commend all those who saw all this ahead of us in faraway 2014 and decided to dump the PDP and leave Okowa to continue his clannish tendencies that would finally exile him in 2019. (42 words)
The Thames provided the major route between the City of London and Westminster in the 16th and 17th centuries; the clannish guild of watermen ferried Londoners from landing to landing and tolerated no outside interference. (35 words)
Bollywood can be very clannish, and the relatives of film-industry insiders have an edge in getting coveted roles in films or being part of a film's crew. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
No nation which wishes to grow deserves or should tolerate a cabal that is clannish in its approach, nepotistic in appointments and inefficient in policy implementation.
Hon. Chinedum Orji in his determination to build a legislature that will guarantee the wellbeing of all Abians devoid of political or clannish boundaries.
But we want to also thank God and commend all those who saw all this ahead of us in faraway 2014 and decided to dump the PDP and leave Okowa to continue his clannish tendencies that would finally exile him in 2019.
Ortom shares clannish ties with Tashaku.
Bollywood can be very clannish, and the relatives of film-industry insiders have an edge in getting coveted roles in films or being part of a film's crew.
In the close knit and clannish Cornwall of the time this was sometimes at his own risk.
The Thames provided the major route between the City of London and Westminster in the 16th and 17th centuries; the clannish guild of watermen ferried Londoners from landing to landing and tolerated no outside interference.
The upper classes looked down on them as excessively prone to drunkenness and laziness, as clannish and untrustworthy, and especially as lacking honor and a sense of national spirit.
Common combinations with clannish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: