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clanny ‎(comparative more clanny, superlative most clanny)

clannish; socially exclusive
- 1991, Gerald Lynch, Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers (page 35)
  They were a clanny bunch who favored each other for jobs […]
- 2004, Karin M. Ekström, Helene Brembeck, Elusive Consumption (page 63)
  Each time I use a personal pronoun, I hear a mafioso echo, a clanny, insular, hegemonic reverberation […]