Cliques is valid Scrabble Word

Is cliques a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is cliques valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for CLIQUES in dictionary:

VERB:

CLIQUE, to form an exclusive group

NOUN:

a small close-knit group of people who do not readily allow others to join them

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to form a clique (an exclusive group of persons)

Words related to CLIQUES

clique17 cliqued19 cliquing20

How to use CLIQUES in a sentence

His elders treated him with consideration, while the younger men envied him, for there were also cliques among them.
The two cliques comprehended these maneuvers and joined battle.
The centre of a literary clique, he loved to associate with all the other cliques, and was one of the first to recognize and proclaim the great merits of Wordsworth.
Beyond my guessing there were cliques and cliques within cliques that made a labyrinth of the palace and extended to all the Seven Coasts.
And the parish is splitting up into social cliques.
Among the new gentry, families entered into alliances with each other, sealed their mutual allegiance by matrimonial unions, and so formed large cliques.
The chief influence of the cliques lay, however, in the selection of officials.
They succeeded at first in either removing the strongest of the other cliques or bringing them into dependence.
Although the class of great landowners was small, a number of cliques formed within it, and their mutual struggle for power soon went beyond the limits of court intrigue.
The incessant struggles of the cliques against each other continued at the expense of the people, who had to fight them and pay for them.

Such fights, however, reflected more the power struggle between cliques than between religious groups.
Once more cliques and rival pretenders were at work and prevented any sort of constructive home policy.
In the capital, eunuchs ruled in the interests of various cliques.
But soon the Ming emperors used the eunuchs as a tool to counteract the power of gentry cliques and thus to strengthen their personal power.
In the first decades of his rule the dangerous cliques of gentry had formed again, and were engaged in mutual struggles.
New cliques formed before long and were exterminated in turn.
The various cliques at court cared little, however, about their ruler.
Liu Chin succeeded within a year in getting rid of the eunuchs at court who belonged to other cliques and were working against him.
He, too, was entirely under the influence of various cliques, at first that of his tutor, the scholar Chang Chue-chan.
In the past, politics had been carried on by cliques of gentry families, with the emperor at their head as an unchangeable institution.
Under the new conditions cliques or individuals among the gentry could only ally themselves with the possessors of military power, the generals or governors.
In the little world of Fort Caroline, a miniature France, cliques and parties, conspiracy and sedition, were fast stirring into life.
There were no cliques, no dissensions, and personal prejudices or selfishness, if any existed, never came to the surface.
Factions and powerful cliques attempted very frequently revolutionary movements on those occasions.
You get into little cliques and mistaken narrow-mindedness for fidelity to an ideal.
Taking charge after three foremen had failed, the factory was naturally full of nasty cliques, each with its unhealthy private interest.
Once in his position, he should be modest, efficient, and do his best to keep out of cliques and inside politics.
The smoking-room was always free for general talk, but Father Payne said that on the whole he discouraged any gatherings or cliques.
Nominations, which had been made by cliques of legislators or Congressmen, began to be made by popular delegate conventions about 1825.

Similar words containing CLIQUE without suffix s

clique17 cliqued19 cliquey21

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