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Some have found, to their cost, that the village can be very cliquey.

If you're comparing this potential work environment to an average day in the life of a cliquey junior high girl, it might even be better.

"It scares me to death because people are so cliquey here, and there's so much emphasis on who you're friends with.

"I went to a cliquey high school where there was a lot of pressure to be thinner, prettier, smarter and cooler than the other females.

Assertive, highly-organised, and probably quite cliquey.

Unfortunately, a lot of these awarding bodies are very cliquey: unless you are with the in crowd, there isn't much chance of winning a prize.

Chickens, as a rule, are as cliquey as high-school girls, and are quite happy to tear to pieces an unfamiliar bird.

"It's very cliquey.

Mr. Alda's best hope, one voter said, is a constituency that many Tony predictors - a famously cliquey crowd - forget.

Both Simon and Nigel had felt very uncomfortable, and the old bunch had been 'cliquey', having little time for these less-affluent and state-educated newcomers.

A firm favourite of art students and the avant-garde cognoscenti, this gallery provides a less cliquey forum for modern art than the White Cube in Hoxton.

"You hear PTA, your image is cliquey cupcake bakers," said Pat Pastore, Washington PTA's president.

Of course, you should never get too cliquish about hanging out with other travelers.

The nannies can be more cliquish than the children, each group stationed at its own bench.

"Nursing is very cliquish and it's a profession with lots of racial problems," she said.

"That's because squads can get too cliquish without regular rotations."

"You want diversity, especially in New York; we get very cliquish here.

And of course these were Iraqis- very cliquish, very clannish.

He had come to the land of opportunity seeking to enlarge his career as an artist, far from the cliquish Madrid art world.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade.

"People vie to get their dogs in during the day, and the dogs are cliquish on the street."

College journalism, like college athletics is a cliquish activity.

"I'm not a really 'cliquish' type of person," she says of herself.

Battles erupted between small ethnic groups which had cliquish aspirations, with riots in divided countries like Poland.

But we're not real cliquish.

"He thought it sounded too cliquish and closed off to the world, though he had no problem with it being known as a Jewish resort."

It was so cliquish, there was no way I could walk up the street and say, 'Hi.

Here, it's more cliquish, big groups.

The quick, bright, caustic, sophisticated Florentines are seen elsewhere as cliquish and sarcastic.

Spiral men were cliquish too.

True, it does make a difference that their friendships were forged in the cozy realm of grad school, which tends to breed cliquish behavior.

And when her true identity is revealed, she even gets to lecture her stunned classmates about their cliquish narrow-mindedness.

Simon Wood, who works at The Nation, bemoaned what he called the party's "cliquish" atmosphere.

Traditionally, the big complaint with the committee has been that its members are too old and too cliquish, out of touch with younger talent.

In a way, if they had been a little more uncertain themselves, they might have organized a less cliquish, more genuinely diverse exhibition.

Q. Clearly, cooperative learning alone isn't going to solve the problem of hostile cliquish behavior in school, or of school violence.

She has no children and moved from Northern California to the cliquish universe of Upperville by herself in 1996.