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What does clannish mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or related to a clan.
  2. Socially exclusive.
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Such increased devoutness and the Huis' tendency to congregate in and around mosques have made them appear clannish to many Han Chinese, Mai said.
The essence of the myth is that the English are standoffish, the Welsh are clannish and only the Scots and the Irish mix with anyone.
Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers.
The English art scene in the 1950s was clannish and especially difficult for a woman to break into.
They are insular, cliquey and clannish, yet they worm their way into the highest positions of power in their adopted countries.
The town, with its nautical history, its foghorns, its steep bluffs and clannish folk, is quintessential Minesota.

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