Unsocial
[ʌn'sәuʃәl]
Definition
(adj.) not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions; 'the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unsociable.
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Examples
- THE title of this chapter might imply that there is an unsocial side to Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- St. John had a book in his hand--it was his unsocial custom to read at meals--he closed it, and looked up. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She loved best of all the animals, that were single and unsocial as she herself was. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He is often overcome by gloom, and then he sits by himself, and tries to overcome all that is sullen or unsocial in his humour. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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