cliqueries

Noun

cliquery (countable and uncountable, plural cliqueries)

1. (countable) A social structure characterized by cliques.
   • He was a keen observer of manners, and had a wholesome contempt for the little cliqueries which are generally formed by persons of narrow mind and sparse acquirements.1883, George Bentley, After Business: Papers Written in the Intervals of Work, page 58
2. (uncountable) Cliquishness.
   • Democracy, Whiggery, and Cliquery will attract their elements and foment divisions among the people, to accomplish fancied schemes and accumulate power, while poverty, driven to despair, like hunger forcing its way through a wall, will break through the statutes of men, to save life and mend the...1844, Joseph Smith, Views on the Government and Policy of the United States, page 10