clubby

Yes, White and his generation were clubby with the political class.

And we got to be pretty clubby there for a while."

There was a clubby atmosphere but you and I were not members of the club.

Moreover, there is a clubby relationship between many regulators and the industry.

"Investment banking is a kind of clubby world," he said.

It can be a clubby place, as you note.

Many of the county's problems can be traced to the clubby air that has dominated its politics.

It's a handsome place, with a dark, clubby bar and some private party rooms.

It was a clubby little gathering played in front of a small audience during football season.

In the clubby atmosphere of American business people abroad, others soon wanted to become clients.

The restaurant, in dark clubby style, stays open past midnight.

But there's also a danger in being too clubby.

"So you don't think it's clubby to tell me anything."

It's a dark look, not necessarily a bad one but quite clubby, and the house music doesn't help.

Company boardrooms remain far too clubby for their shareholders' good.

The clubby nature of the beer business had turned into a bruising battle.

Under his direction, the paper and its editorials started taking a less clubby, more independent line.

But today the clubby old atmosphere of Congress is looked on with something approaching nostalgia.

They talked quietly together in a well-bred clubby sort of way.

It was a clubby kind of room, Vince decided.

"We'll probably hear from them tomorrow," he announced in a cheerful clubby voice.

No matter, the scope of your resume, she said, "the arts are clubby."

The grill has a clubby atmosphere with mahogany and brass.

Even in this clubby atmosphere, the candidates drew some distinctions among them.

For a while there, it seemed as if things might have changed in the clubby world of Brooklyn judicial politics.