How To Use Unsocial In A Sentence
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I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
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lived an unsocial reclusive life
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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Many social workers work unsocial hours and work incredibly hard.
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‘Gardaí have been called there on numerous occasions and there's a lot of unsocial behaviour going on,’ he said.
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Feeling distinctly unsocial, Gabriel turned to the countess.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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On the negative side, the directive has resulted in unsocial shifts and yet another tier of bureaucracy to ensure that rotas are compliant.
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The pay was low and the hours were often unsocial.
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A much overlooked irony with social networking sites is that, although they are supposedly ‘social’, their use requires one to very unsocially spend time behind one's PC.
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In firm and lofty character, pain is mastered; in a character so little endowed with cool tenacious strength as Rousseau's, pain such as he endured was enough to account, not for his unsociality, which flowed from temperament, but for the bitter, irritable, and suspicious form which this unsociality now first assumed.
Rousseau
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Now, I'm going to make telephone calls and unsocial arrangements of that sort.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position.
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Shift work and unsocial hours leave a fair bit of time to trawl the Web, and to add one's own five penn'orth to the blogosphere.
Another One Bites The Dust
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It was designed to tackle unsocial behaviour such as loud music, rowdy or offensive behaviour or dog control in Braintree, Witham and Halstead, by getting those responsible to sign a contract promising to mend their ways.
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Watching her 13-year-old daughter falter in her studies and become more and more unsocial has firmed Yang's decision to divorce.
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Staff are often parents who work unsocial hours to allow stores to open whenever is most convenient to customers.
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They are also angered at delays to carry out reviews of pay levels for work at unsocial hours and weekends and the withholding of additional payments.
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It doesn't seem that people are particularly unsocial now that they've got cell phones, they just have this cell phone addiction that they have to get over first.
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In essence, the new contract offered more money in return for accepting greater managerial control and the potential to be obliged to work unsocial hours.
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Those things made me uncomfortable and even more unsocial.
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Energy is what I'm missing, that raw, spittly, unsocialized fizz that only an overexcited nerd can produce.
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A new group has been formed which will look into ways of putting an end to unsocial behaviour, which has been causing concern to many residents in the area.
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Mostly because of a large increase in illegitimacy since 1970, Lykken says, "across the land, but mainly in the inner cities, thousands of children aren't being brought up by, but only domiciled with, parents who are indifferent, incompetent, or unsocialized themselves.
How We Become What We Are
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On the one hand, he follows the exploits of the boys, without digging too deep into motivation or sexuality, and on the other stays personal with Cassie, without attempting to explain her unsocial behaviour.
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the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors
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The defendant had put nearly £20,000, his life savings, into the post office believing he would ultimately become a partner but he worked long unsocial hours and was not rewarded.
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A few chairs were filled with unsocial people that seemed to already know each other.
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Carers therefore often have little control over the amount of time they work, and many care agencies do not pay more for these unsocial hours.
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They want a lot more from these talks, especially on issues like unsocial hours premiums, which under the current proposals would make them worse off.
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There can be nothing more unsocial and callous than smoking in a crowded public place such as a cinema or a bus stand.
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Shift work and unsocial hours leave a fair bit of time to trawl the Web, and to add one's own five penn'orth to the blogosphere.
Another One Bites The Dust
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Deputy Sen O Fearghail, who also heads the Cill Dara Housing Association, said in the CYMS on Friday, that unsocial behaviour among tenants would not be tolerated.
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Foer works this mock-heroic metaphor to death, honouring his colleagues – ill-groomed and unsocialised wonks, who wear blinkers and blacked-out goggles when competing – as "mental athletes" or "warriors of the mind".
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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He is more shy than unsocial.
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Many of these are women and black workers in low status, low paid jobs with unsocial hours.
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Honestly Frank, I hired you because of your ability to be unapologetically unsocial.
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The driver goes out in the foulest weather conditions at the most unsocial hours to keep us safe.
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‘You may think him bookish and unsocial now, but as he matures he'll come to love the court, as you do.’
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Somehow the town needs to regain ownership and pride in the river, rather than turn our backs so we can hide from the unsocial behaviour in its bed.
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What would happen when shy, unsocial girl meets with cold, gang boy?
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The way it performs, responsibly or unsocially, will be monitored by customers, investors and employees.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are growing up uneducated, unsocialized and often unloved, producing a desperate generation.
Globe and Mail
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He lodges in the town near the school, and thus the debasing habit of unsocial besotment is not brought under the eyes of his superior.
My Novel — Volume 12
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I like people, I'm just unsocial because of my hearing, not antisocial.
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A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.
Mankind in the Making
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While crime, scams, and general unsocial behavior has been on the rise in Pattaya for some time, there seems to be a disturbing trend with Thais putting guns to the heads of foreigners.
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Through this isolation, people have become unsocial and full of apprehension about trusting or opening up to each other.
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Fighting the most popular storytelling medium is not only a losing battle and horribly snobbish but unsocial too.
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They work long and often unsocial hours, take public responsibility and face many stressful situations which other groups of workers rarely do.
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They also have a very powerful kick, to be avoided at all costs, and have most unsocial habits like peeing on your foot or leaving large deposits for you to stand in.
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He answered questions from the floor on law and order issues and said that loutish and unsocial behaviour would not be tolerated.
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There was something in the man so far beyond any mere unsociality or sourness previously evinced, that even the forbearing good-nature of his guest could no longer endure it.
The Piazza Tales
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Any unsocially aggressive men will have to answer to brothel security or the police, of course.
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Hence the growth of a marked unsociality, taking literary form in the Discourses, and practical form in his retirement from the town.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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The road-hogging game will also help to create an awareness of the unsocial and dangerous road behaviour out there.
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Many young journalists, or student journalists, work unsocial hours at rates of pay that have not increased for at least four years.
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The introduction of new lower rates of pay for working unsocial hours, which would have been a major cause of workers being worse off, has been postponed until April 2006.
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'Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man.
Life Of Johnson
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She is more shy than unsocial.
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My initial reaction was that he was unfriendly or unsocial, but that was far from the case.
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He argued that most consultants already work unsocial hours, but this is not written down in their agreements, nor is it properly resourced.
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We are regularly told of the acute shortage of surgeons and nurses: could the health trust find the extra medical expertise, willing to work unsocial hours, it would require?
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A majority of mothers and 79 per cent of fathers frequently work at unsocial hours.
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After exposing, with the perfection of fun, the savage unsociality of those elder ancestors who lived (if life it was) before lamp-light was invented, showing that "jokes came in with candles," since "what repartees could have passed" when people were "grumbling at one another in the dark," and "when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbor's cheek to be sure that he understood it?
Biographical Essays
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Kids can't be prosecuted so the police can't do anything more than warn them not to behave unsocially.
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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.
Wandering in the Landscape with Wordsworth and Deleuze
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Partly such energising is art's responsibility, one that works, by means of what WG Sebald calls "keeping faith with unsocial, banned language", to question, understand and, with any luck, transcend the proscriptions and the inarticulacies of whatever time we happen to live in.
Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am'
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They are also traumatised and unsocialised, which can make them aggressive and anti-social.
The Sun
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She's a nurse so she often works unsocial hours.
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Your report ended with a quote from an unnamed Leeds City Council spokesman to the effect that many local residents are concerned that providing the equipment would lead to noisy and unsocial behaviour.
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Herself, she’s unsocial and ungregarious, she’s an introvert: she doesn’t like to see other people free and easy and happy, and so she tries to spoil things for them, that’s all.
Tour de Force
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Whence great discontent among certain of these, who had contributed to make him Abbot: reproaches, open and secret, of his being 'ungrateful, hard-tempered, unsocial, a Norfolk _barrator_ and _paltenerius_.'
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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My initial reaction was that he was unfriendly or unsocial, but that was far from the case.
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The ladies in the town below complain through Miss Brett to Mrs. Wolfe of the unsociality of the garrison.
Lectures and Essays
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My guess would be that either you think I am unsocial, or you believe I am about to take over the world and want in.
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However they are adamant that they will not be ‘unfairly imposed upon to accept further abuse through property damage, theft and general unsocial behaviour’.
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The fare rises are being introduced to encourage taxi drivers to work during unsocial hours.
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The thing was that, with Jakey, the good days were when he was just unsocial with everybody and the bad days were when he cried for our parents or me with little break.
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Im not interested in the dumb, slobby, burger-eating, beer-drinking unsocially aware girls.
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Furthermore, better unsocial hours patient care is surely likely when provided by dedicated night shift doctors instead of GPs dragged back out of bed after a day of surgeries and home visits?
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Working long and unsocial hours is a ‘requirement of the job rather than a choice’, according to 75 percent of mothers surveyed.
