cliquery

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A social structure characterized by cliques. countable
    — He was a keen observer of manners, and had a wholesome contempt for the little cliqueries which are generally formed by persons of narrow mind and sparse acquirements.
  2. Cliquishness. uncountable
    — Democracy, Whiggery, and Cliquery will attract their elements and foment divisions among the people, to accomplish fancied schemes and accumulate power, while poverty, driven to despair, like hunger forcing its way through a wall, will break through the statutes of men, to save life and mend the breach in prison glooms.

词形变化

cliqueries plural

词源

From clique + -ery.
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