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
When that "emotional lift" fades, the platform begins to feel "oddly unsocial".
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
Workers at the site last went on strike in 2021 over a dispute about pay for unsocial hours.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
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
Now, although Colonel Hunter did drive twelve weary miles of road with the Major for a fellow-traveller,—thanks to that unsocial conveniency called an Irish jaunting-car,—they rode back to back, and conversed but little.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James