21. West wrote that Frenchtown was " clannish ". 22. Still, the controversy only reinforced Indiana's outsider status among the clannish islanders. 23. To police, the Irish Travellers are clannish , tight-lipped masters of scam. 24. Subsequent political events reverted that result to a more " clannish -tradition " direction. 25. This appointment underscored the clannish character of the Ba'ath Party and the government. 26. Only the clannish freshman class rose up as a powerful enough force to contest him outright. 27. In a clannish and religious sense, everyone knows everyone else, which increases the tension. 28. The Irish and Scottish people who came here were very clannish , and kept very close. 29. Still, the residents suggest that not everyone would feel welcome in so clannish a neighborhood. 30. Call me clannish , but the older you get the more you think about the young ones.