| Moreover, what makes this putative power even more potent is that it is believed to be clandestine and cliquish. |
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| Their patronising, cliquish self-regard has repeatedly been exposed as charlatanry. |
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| But I would rather see the inevitable mistakes made by a democratic rather than a cliquish system of voting. |
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| And, stunning as the highlights of Monty Python are – the Spam sketch, the Lumberjack song, or the parrot – when you watch a typical show, there's a cliquish intellectual quality to much of the humour. |
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| The Golden Globes, with its cliquish banquet seating and copious vodka, is like a raucous wedding party at which the two families hail from slightly different social strata. |
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| They are a cliquish minority denomination that no one takes in the least seriously. |
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| His economic programme has some good elements, such as flatter, simpler taxes, and deregulation. The real worry is over Mr Orban's headstrong ways and cliquish habits. |
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| Although now in their mid-30s, they still act like cliquish teenagers. |
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