Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or showing a lack of desire for the company of others.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not social; not adapted to society; not tending to sociability; reserved; unsociable.
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- adjective Not
social . - adjective
Inhospitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions
Etymologies
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Examples
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The impetus to development Kant found in the restlessness arising from the conflict in man between his social and antisocial tendencies, in what he calls the unsocial sociableness of man, his desire for gain and power, his greed and competitiveness.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MORRIS GINSBERG 1968
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For Deleuze and Guattari, the schizophrenic is a challenge to the political and linguistic systems simultaneously since he utilizes language in unsocial and antisocial ways.
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Can we say that money causes people to act in unsocial ways, causes them to be greedy and insensitive to the needs of others?
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In this context, for example, it is not money itself which drives people to “act in unsocial ways,” but rather the desire for money above the desire to live well with other people.
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Can we say that money causes people to act in unsocial ways, causes them to be greedy and insensitive to the needs of others?
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The BBC announced in 1989 that it would phase out extra payments made to staff for working at the weekend, but figures seen by the Daily Telegraph show that 22 years later there are still 29 employees remaining who earn up to £2,000 a year on top of their salaries purely for working at so-called "unsocial" times.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The BBC announced in 1989 that it would phase out extra payments made to staff for working at the weekend, but figures seen by the Daily Telegraph show that 22 years later there are still 29 employees remaining who earn up to £2,000 a year on top of their salaries purely for working at so-called "unsocial" times.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I have been accused of 'making myself scarce,' and been always considered an 'unsocial' fellow: it is a task to me to go into a situation where I am likely to attract attention, and the observation of men.
Letter 412 2009
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A flat tax is "unsocial" and favors the rich, officials of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's SPD sniffed last week.
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Since we hadn't spoken much for an entire school year, she got mad at me, claiming that I had changed and was "unsocial".
Venting. And it helped, too. grassbrace 2001
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