asocial

Example Sentences

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The practice of art seemed an asocial, even antisocial activity.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

They are asocial, meaning they live by themselves.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2022

“In my first YA book I wrote a snarky, mouthy teenager with asocial bad attitudes,” he says, “and the second one was riddled with anxiety and insecurity. And people said, ‘Yep, that’s Ben.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2021

That, they explained, means that "this paranoid style is not restricted to the social domain, and that it can be modeled in relatively asocial animals."

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2020

It is in accordance with this that a neurosis should make its victim asocial and should remove him from the usual group formations.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund