clubbish

The county scandals we saw this year were not the result of too much conflict; they stemmed from a clubbish and oversight-free atmosphere where dissent and even honest questions were not tolerated on controversial topics.

And in David Copperfield, too, Steerforth uses the same clubbish register in respect of Traddles, though there with an inflection of patronage: "I extolled Traddles in reply, as highly as I could; for I felt that Steerforth rather slighted him.

Of these, an especially important factor is group cohesiveness, where a "clubbish" atmosphere develops between the members.

With clubbish kicks and snares and monumental build-ups before ecstatic crashes, Worlds is surely the work of someone who knows how to make popular dance music.

But the UK is no longer a clubbish kind of place, and the venue closed down in 2012.

The stairs draw visitors through a range of study and collaboration spaces: Adjacent to the main lobby, a triple-height reading lounge entices visitors with sexy armchairs and a clubbish mood.

a solitary, despised outsider confronting a powerful, clubbish ruling class.

This book opens up the clubbish world Madoff operated, tracing the links from The Hamptons to the salons and clubs of Manhattan society and revealing how the underlying sense of insecurity still shapes some of the richest and most successful individuals in America.

As a journalist who stalks Krogh, Minty relies on the old solidity of a strict religious code, a clubbish devotion to Harrow, his Alma Mater, and a Victorian intolerance of the flesh.

There was even a good deal of pining among West Germans for their secure and prosperous 'Bonn Republic' and many Western Europeans also regretted the passing of the richer, more clubbish European Union of the 1980s.