clubby
Speech parts
1. clubby - Adjective
2. clubby - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
effusively sociable
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In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.
a clubbish set
we got rather clubby
His chain of steakhouse, with pigskin menus and clubby steakhouse vibe, have done well too — there are more than 30 in the U.S. (roughly a third of them in Florida).
Long considered the hot spot for politicians and the famous, Jack’s ambiance is reminiscent of the clubby New York style restaurants so in vogue today.
Last summer brought “The Magpie Murders,” a mash-up of Agatha Christie-style whodunit with affectionate tweaks of the clubby world of British publishers, editors, and authors.