The quality of being friendly and sociable with fellow members of a group but not with outsiders.
the clubbiness of media folk
Example sentencesExamples
Clubbiness and nostalgia have sunk the avant-garde as surely as bad writing and self-indulgence.
The type of male clubbiness off the promotion ladder becomes more apparent the higher up in an organization one goes.
There is a kind of clubbiness in the parliament, a sort of collective mindset, a social conservatism.
There's also long been a clubbiness among men in general, from Boy Scouts on up.
It cut through the clubbiness, the sense that politics is just about personalities.
The clubbiness of sporting activity is highlighted as a way of gaining friends.
I don't believe clubbiness is a characteristic of the university, although some respondents felt that was an issue in their area.
Paramount is the need to create an independent office for ethics enforcement to end the clubbiness that more often than not covers up or excuses abuses.
I didn't want to add to the pretension and the snobbery, the clubbiness that I loathe in the wine world.
Then there's the clubbiness of media folk in New York and Washington - not to mention corporate-pressured aversion to controversy.