The unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Can we say that money causes people to act in unsocial ways, causes them to be greedy and insensitive to the needs of others?. From Wordnik.com. [2007 January « Hyperpat’s HyperDay] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering in the Landscape with Wordsworth and Deleuze] Reference
Since we hadn't spoken much for an entire school year, she got mad at me, claiming that I had changed and was "unsocial". From Wordnik.com. [Venting. And it helped, too.] Reference
So, increasingly, previously "unsocial" media is going to get socialized. From Wordnik.com. [Advertising Age - Homepage] Reference
It is not a society because it is an organization of individuals whose relations, if not wholly external, are, at any rate, "unsocial" in so far as there is no consensus. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
An unsocial man can by no possibility lead a true life. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
I knew she was a bit unsocial, but this was strange, and unnerving. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 9] Reference
An unsocial man is as devoid of influence as an ice-peak is of verdure. 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
Nicholas, the Iron Czar, a man stern, unlovable and unsocial, was dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
England diminish none of their Pride, Obstinacy, or other, unsocial Passions. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 May 1780] Reference
I am an unsocial being, Sir Henry, and, from my habits, not likely to be popular. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
It's so obvious she's unsocial, and explains why she doesn't have any female friends. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
There were many other regulations emancipating the members from the tyranny of unsocial society. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
We proceeded for many miles in this unsocial manner; unsocial, for it precludes all conversation. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference
Europe, perhaps, does difference of fortune or of station produce more unsocial or illiberal separation. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
The vice is not only solitary, unsocial and utterly selfish, but incessant and increasing in its demands. 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
Brady was an indifferent companion, subject to fits of absence of mind, -- more unsocial than absence of body. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Why, there is such a desolate, unsocial feeling I should not live out half my days if I had to remain in such a place. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
His surly speech, his unsocial temper, spoke of a mind ill at ease, -- the remembrance of the past made the present sad. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference
The two neighbors had very little to do with each other after that; and the hermit became still more unsocial and morose. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
He is not one of those unsocial philosophers who put their best thoughts into books to be kept in cold storage for posterity. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
The unsocial habit of not introducing guests to each other tended to restrain conversation and make the dinner dull and heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
He had a sincere desire to preserve men from the society of unsocial and unsympathizing women; and that was his principal idea. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The hills are as usual barren, all the shrubs are thorny, and all the plants unsocial, never coalescing into any thing like groups. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Beckford was eccentric and unsocial: he lived for some time in Portugal, but returned to England, and built a luxurious palace at Bath. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
TV can go wall-to-wall with the story in an instant, but I can't post my own reaction on their wall; that's why unsocial media is archaic. From Wordnik.com. [Marty Kaplan: Sonia's Wiki Wonder] Reference
In the regiment he is considered proud and unsocial; and indeed it was your brother's friendship that appeared to retain him in our circle. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
People live mostly in lodgings, which is the most unsocial way possible of living: there are no reading-rooms, no cafés, no hops, no places of meeting and introduction. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
I urged her to make an effort to sing, and she told me she had tried many times, and that it had grieved her to be so unsocial while I was toiling so hard to save her life. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Old Queen was an unsocial animal and it was necessary to tie her in the far stall when a strange horse was brought into the barn, as she had a way of treating intruders badly. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
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