Antonyms for clique
klik, klɪkclique

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1. cliquenoun

   Synonyms:
   camp, coterie, in group, inner circle

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1. clique

   A class is a number or body of persons or objects having common pursuits, purposes, attributes, or characteristics. A caste is hereditary; a class may be independent of lineage or descent; membership in a caste is supposed to be for life; membership in a class may be very transient; a religious and ceremonial sacredness attaches to the caste, as not to the class. The rich and the poor form separate classes; yet individuals are constantly passing from each to the other; the classes in a college remain the same, but their membership changes every year. We speak of rank among hereditary nobility or military officers; of various orders of the priesthood; by accommodation, we may refer in a general way to the higher ranks, the lower orders of any society. Grade implies some regular scale of valuation, and some inherent qualities for which a person or thing is placed higher or lower in the scale; as, the coarser and finer grades of wool; a man of an inferior grade. A coterie is a small company of persons of similar tastes, who meet frequently in an informal way, rather for social enjoyment than for any serious purpose. Clique has always an unfavorable meaning. A clique is always fractional, implying some greater gathering of which it is a part; the association breaks up into cliques. Persons unite in a coterie through simple liking for one another; they withdraw into a clique largely through aversion to outsiders. A set, while exclusive, is more extensive than a clique, and chiefly of persons who are united by common social station, etc. Circle is similar in meaning to set, but of wider application; we speak of scientific and religious as well as of social circles.

   Synonyms:
   association, caste, circle, clan, class, club, company, coterie, grade, order, rank, set

   Preposition:
   A class of merchants; the senior class at (sometimes of) Harvard; the classes in college.

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1. • Set

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1. clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, campnoun

   an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

   Synonyms:
   mob, refugee camp, coterie, encampment, pack, gang, plurality, battalion, ingroup, large number, summer camp, face pack, cantonment, bivouac, inner circle, camp, ring, multitude

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1. cliquenoun

   Synonyms:
   coterie, circle

How to use clique in a sentence?

1. Vladimir Putin:

   It appears that Allah decided to punish the ruling clique of Turkey by depriving them of wisdom and judgment.

2. Eric Hoffer:

   Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity

3. William Gibbs McAdoo:

   The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in the hands of a small clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak through their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every corner of the United States.

4. Norbu Dondrup:

   As for some countries slamming our human rights, they either don't understand or believe the Dalai clique's rumors and bewitchments.

5. Jay Lanham:

   Last year, we saw the gangs, especially MS-13, laying low. We arrested a lot of the program and clique leaders so their leadership was lacking.

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