What is "cliquish"

Usage examples of "cliquish".

Anni of Culhall, the boy Jamis the Younger, Helmer of Greater Amberly, whose own daughter would claim his wings in less than a year, a half-dozen others from the West, three cliquish Easterners.

Far away from her cigarettes and her snobbishness, her cliquish friends, her atrocious spelling.

Naturally cliquish, they eschewed the common haunts and claimed this small isolated space for their own.

Cassidy, the sheltered daughter of famous scientists who had elevated themselves from stark poverty as children to esteemed positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory doing top-secret quantum research for the Department of Defense, had had a nearly impossible time getting a date outside of the cliquish scientific community in which she'd been raised.