clannishly
adverb disapproving uk/ˈklæn.ɪʃ.li/ us/ˈklæn.ɪʃ.li/
派系地,党派地,拉帮结派地
in a way that is friendly and helpful only to other people in your group, but not to people outside the group
Students clung together clannishly in their little groups. 学生们在自己的小圈子里抱团。
They clannishly "look after their own." 他们结党营私。
See: clannish
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- They live clannishly within their own groups.
- Napoleon behaved clannishly and gave his family important posts.
- They have a clannishly narrow interpretation of what being southern means.