clique

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It might, at last, silence the small but noisy intellectual clique.
它可能最终会使这个聒噪的知识分子小圈子安静下来。
The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.
反动统治集团内部勾心斗角,四分五裂.
Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds , this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
今天, 这个反动集团百孔千疮,内外交困,矛盾重重.
It might, at last, silence the small but noisy intellectual clique.
它可能最终会使这个聒噪的知识分子小圈子安静下来。
At university, Taylor had fallen in with a small clique of literature students.
在大学里，泰勒曾经频繁参与一个文学小团体的活动。

a small group of people who spend their time together and do not welcome other people into that group

If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.