Hawthorn turned back the clock somewhat with its 'unsociability' in 2008, its niggling pushing the boundaries of the rules in order to gain a psychological edge on its opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age News Headlines] Reference

We were ushered into a house, all cleanliness and comfort, all order, silence, and unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference

As a result De Tocqueville ascribed to the English "a strange unsociability, reserved and taciturn".    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Conversation] Reference

They were so infuriated at the new arrival's unsociability that they would probably kill him if they found him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

The thing was not impossible, but its difficulty served as too good an excuse for Dr Burton's increasing unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Her discontent somewhat relieved by expression, she became ashamed of her unsociability, and Major Fane's next topic was not uncongenial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

Most of the out of guideline prescriptions were for memory problems, restlessness, unsociability, uncooperativeness, indifference to their surroundings, or depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Inconvenient Truths] Reference

He cons over that passport of his unsociability, words of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference

Jefferson's unaccountable unsociability, declined somewhat abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life] Reference

It was scarcely a companionship, but a co-existence in unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference

Reproaches, open and secret, of ingratitude, unsociability: Except for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

Cockney, to whom the quiet and unsociability of the country was anathema.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black] Reference

If naturally sombre and unsocial, guard against moroseness and unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power From On High] Reference

They tell anecdotes of his lack of cordiality, of his unsociability, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immortal Memories] Reference

For her unsociability, I think, Miss Perry's evil influence was partly to blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls] Reference

They express Michelangelo's irritation at being always twitted with unsociability and eccentricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference

But Maltravers had his fits of unsociability, and then nothing but the most solitary scenes delighted him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference

And if we look at the matter closely, we see that inattention is here equivalent to what we have called unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

More precisely, it is a special unsociability, one which escapes all other penalties, which it is the function of laughter to reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

It was however permitted me, through felicitous circumstances, to become acquainted with the probable explanation of her unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Shore and Sedge] Reference

The April dusk began to gather and the unsociability of her behaviour, especially if she were still rumbling round the Park, became absurd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

He was of a shy and gentle nature, and his sedentary occupation had simply let the habit of solitude and unsociability form a shell about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference

But the accusation of unsociability does not apply to Perry, whose doors are open day and night, and whose welcome is always perfectly sincere.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a College Window] Reference

This would certainly solve part of my financial problem, but I was hungry and unreasonably more irritated by her refusal of food than her unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

But we will not admit that our modern artistic claim to absolute originality is really a claim to absolute unsociability; a claim to absolute loneliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference

Rigidity, automatism, absent-mindedness and unsociability are all inextricably entwined; and all serve as ingredients to the making up of the comic in character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

Notwithstanding her former reputation for unsociability, Janie, at the end of three days, had completely lost her heart to this wayward, impulsive daughter of Erin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life] Reference

But as scarcely any one seemed afflicted on his account, even his unsociability failed to make Samuel Shuckleford's majority party anything but a brilliant success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life] Reference

In one I found the skin and horns of a goat that had been devoured, which sight somewhat frightened me; but trusting to the unsociability of the tiger, who will rather fly from.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference

Though taciturn will still be to hand, it implies a person with a reserve that borders on unsociability rather than one who merely wishes to avoid discussing his private affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

But then it is no longer mere imperfection in general, it is not even immorality, properly speaking; it is merely unsociability, well or badly understood, which laughter corrects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

Looking for hard unsociability of males, but with breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » What Kinds of Girls Are Upper Tier Colleges Looking For?] Reference

But an English Club "is really a promoter of unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

" The accusations of unsociability, of individualism, of aristocratism, were closely connected with this particular mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life]

What can this unsociability be?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

Perhaps he likes unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of the Farrells] Reference

I am of no essential unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference

"Full of unsociability and conceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

It "restrains eccentricity" and "corrects unsociability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

Reproaches, open and secret, of ingratitude, unsociability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present] Reference