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Example sentences for "clannishness"

Lexicographically close words:
clangula; clank; clanked; clanking; clannish; clans; clanship; clansman; clansmen; clap
  1. Owing to their extreme clannishness assimilation is slow.

  2. Figure you a woman basely betrayed; your admirable sentiments regarding the sex must compel you to admit there is here something more than clannishness can condone.

  3. That racial clannishness is to be found everywhere, but nowhere is it more sticky than in ancestor-worshiping Japan.

  4. Racial clannishness seems to require even closer touch where space is wide.

  5. But can such incidents as the one cited above be attributed to the clannishness of the people.

  6. The clannishness of the mountaineer has been the subject of much comment.

  7. The repressive policy, taken by itself, has been and will always be the first and main source of the clannishness of the Jews and their aloofness from Russian life.

  8. The latter are chiefly an expression of the predatory impulse simply; the former are more specifically an expression of that heritage of clannishness which is so large a feature in the temperament of the predatory barbarian.

  9. Habituation to war entails a body of predatory habits of thought, whereby clannishness in some measure replaces the sense of solidarity, and a sense of invidious distinction supplants the impulse to equitable, everyday serviceability.

  10. Thinking it over, it seems to me that it epitomized in a glance all the secret clannishness and "ear-wigging" tendencies which the travelers of the Road possess in such large and abundant measure.

  11. Thanks to their clannishness and pluck, they appear to be tolerably immune from attack.

  12. But their clannishness does not shelter them from all tribulation.

  13. It is not safe in a republican form of government that clannishness should exist, either by compulsory or voluntary reason; it is not good for the government, it is not good for the individual.

  14. It is a fatality to create or foster clannishness in a government like ours.


  15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clannishness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    airs; arrogance; contumely; despite; disdain; disparagement; exclusiveness; faction; fraternity; hauteur; insult; partiality; ridicule; scorn; sectarianism; sectionalism; snobbery