An unsociable nature...shy and reserved. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an unsociable boardinghouse. From Dictionary.com.
Seems kind of unsociable, muffling themselves up behind these hedgerows!. From Wordnik.com. [Flaming June] Reference
This, the lecturers complain, would lead to them being forced to work "unsociable" hours. From Wordnik.com. [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference
If I failed in any measure in this respect, they reproached me with being "unsociable," and said. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Folks] Reference
Therefore it would be kind of unsociable for me to run off and only write whatever individual pages strike my fancy at any given instant. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
We are unsociable, and think everybody else is so. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Al. I ask your pardon, madam; I know I am unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Tom sat apart from everyone else, feeling unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
That is the answer of the unsociable, of the quarrelsome. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
We grunted indifferently in reply, as an unsociable man might. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
"And we have been unsociable to everyone else for long enough.". From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
The idea that Evadne was naturally unsociable was pretty general, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
It was a most unsociable trio that gathered at the breakfast table that. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Maritzburgians, nor are we inhospitable, nor exclusive, nor unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
Qwilleran asked, thinking he might be one of the unsociable cab drivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
"How unsociable!" says Molly, rather disappointed at the latter's defection. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
That was rare; she tended to be unsociable except with people she knew well. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Captains and crew drink together but are unsociable with other people ashore. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
Well, of all the spooniest, unsociable, selfish people, you two are the worst. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The general construction put upon her proud reserve was that she was unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference
‘Keep out,’ said Laura, slowing up and reading aloud these unsociable words. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
He was a young man of about four and twenty, remarkably unsociable and taciturn. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
He was always morose and unsociable, and only spoke when required by his profession. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
Is it a way of attributing a cat-like caricature to singles - say, aloof and unsociable?. From Wordnik.com. [Bella DePaulo: What's With the Cat, and Other Questions about Singles and Their Pets] Reference
He was just as unsociable, and showed not the slightest inclination for any companionship. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Work-life balance Long and often unsociable shifts can make having a social life difficult. From Wordnik.com. [A working life: The Tower Bridge operator] Reference
Also Wolfe offered me a wing and a drumstick, and it would have boeen unsociable to refuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Mountain]
Yet, in spite of these unsociable habits, she was a great favourite with her schoolfellows. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
He was decidedly unsociable, but from a training standpoint, he was entirely "on to his job.". From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
So that Mr. van Cannan's unsociable restriction, far from being irksome, suited her perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Human nature is, at least in part, the unlovely and unsociable attitude which Hobbes portrayed. From Wordnik.com. [ETHICS OF PEACE] Reference
Although diplomatically reserved and unsociable, he was more popular and famed than he suspected. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
He was a glum, unsociable recluse anyway, may be at a loss for a second idea to keep his mind busy. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Though personally more and more unsociable as years advanced, Dr Burton was excessively hospitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The cold little girl with no hat, a strange, somewhat unsociable, new person, and I stood there waiting one hour. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Steevens lived, embosomed in books, shrubs and trees, being either too coy or too unsociable to mingle with his neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference
I have been doing my best to become acquainted with you, but you listen and reply in monosyllables, which is most unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
Shy men and shy races are ungraceful and undemonstrative, because, as regards society at large, they are comparatively unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It may be assumed also that it is unsociable, for it generally swims about by itself, and not in shoals or in companies like other fishes. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
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