Definition of "cultish" [cultish]

• Resembling a cult (adjective)

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• "As I wrote in Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, "what makes a cult cultish is not so much what it espouses, but how much authority its leaders grant themselves -- and how slavishly devoted to them its followers are.""
• "One computer scientist let slip the word cultish; others mock the singularity as the rapture of the nerds."
• "Twelve members of her extended family have come to Las Vegas to cheer Charli on, and one immediately brands the pageant "cultish" -- for all of its subterranean rules, eager hangers-on, elaborate costumes and strict sequestering of the queens."