What is "clannish"

Usage examples of "clannish".

They cultivated a clannish sentiment that made for great loyalty but worked against the cohesion needed if the Vendean army was ever to be more than an ephemeral confederation of resistance bands.

There was something about arcology dwellers, clannish, almost cyborgs with smile circuitry.

Jews were supposed to be canny, clannish traders who had some absurd belief in an invisible god who disdained statues and pork flesh and was never satisfied with the world he was supposed to have created.

We consider them simple and direct - when really they are the most secretive and convoluted of people, more tribally clannish than any Scot.

I sensed that clannish, secretive mind-set of a lifelong carny, so I talked for a bit about the gillies and ragbags I'd worked in the Midwest, all the way through Ohio, while he continued to tinker with the generator and remained mute.

Maybe they're not Commies, but they're still clannish, still hold the ideal of the Motherland close to their hearts.

He had behind him something that the ordinary man didn't have tradition, clannish tradition.

Now some of the saurs have seen fit to share it with the merchants, or at least with this clan, who I'm sure are clannish enough to keep it to themselves.

But we have become clannish, more so in places like Branning-at-sea than in the hills.

They had grown even more clannish in the generation since, which showed in the tall ceramic steins along the walls, plastic wainscoting that made a valiant attempt to imitate fumed oak, and a human bartender in wooden shoes, lederhosen, and a beard clipped closer on one side than the other.