They included gossiping, forming cliques and being vain and arrogant.

The pupils in the school form cliques, and every so often they gang up on someone for no good reason, isolating and baiting them with a horrifying level of cruelty.

Some teams switch riders around so that they do not form cliques.

But it was found dolphins in one group sometimes formed cliques.

Any set of connected simplicial vertices forms a clique.

They were paid to write for a small clique, and did just that.

Composers stopped writing for their public and wrote instead for the small clique that was responsible for commissioning pieces.

The first part of his statement means that the rest of the population has to put up with caravans clogging the roads for the benefit of this small clique.

He pulls the little blue book out and denounces it as the work of a small clique of states.

A small clique stood sullenly in the corner.

The term was tongue-in-cheek, describing a powerful social clique, not some truly devious alliance ruling either an industry or politics.

The endless arguments are about fundamental things: social exclusion; fidelity; loyalty; social cliques; secret-keeping.

Questions at the beginning of the game categorize the player into one of the social cliques.

She spends most of her time disliking the social cliques in school and practicing her cello.

These films are often set in or around high schools as this allows for many different social cliques to be shown.