unsocial
Example Sentences
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If being social is good for us, why do we choose to be so unsocial?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Resident doctors can earn thousands more each year for things like working at unsocial times and doing additional hours.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Even Liz Hammel, with a self-described “naturally unsocial temperament,” made herself say hello to every passerby while walking her dog — and it worked!
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023
As Letterman would walk and run onto the stage, Mr. Kalter would introduce him with a sarcastic flair as “the king of unsocial media,” “nocturnal rainforest mammal” and other monikers.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021
And when he became the prey to disease, he became sullen, unsocial, and desponding; evidently the victim of his own self-condemning reflections, and of that retributive justice which never suffers the wicked to go unpunished.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.