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UK
/ʌnsˈəʊʃiəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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not inclined to society or companionship
an unsociable neighborhood
an unsociable nature...shy and reserved
unsociable behavior
generally unsociable except with intimate friends
How To Use unsociable In A Sentence
- He went on: ‘Although drink driving has now become unsociable, it's about time that we accept that people driving in a sleepified state should also be social outcasts.’
- Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- A rather rude and tactless comment a few weeks ago when some of them had tried to visit her in hospital had assured them that she was still just as unsociable as before the kidnapping.
- The owner of the car garage, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was parking cars on the land, often disturbing his neighbour with noise and fumes at unsociable hours.
- They are compiling a list of skating no-go areas around the parish - and a blanket ban on skateboarding in unsociable hours is also being put forward.
- In addition, the Connery household apparently play loud music at unsociable hours and generally ‘stomp about’.
- The warder, whose name was Li and who disliked the gruff and unsociable criminal, was mystified to see a Korean looking after a Chinese with brotherly care.
- It is completely unsociable behaviour which is totally unacceptable.
- There are farmers who are a worry because they stay at home, become unsociable and withdraw.
- An Englishwoman, who met him in Burma, where his main intellectual pursuit was reading the Adelphi magazine, thought him ‘brusque and unsociable with no small talk’.