unsocial

[US]/ʌn'səʊʃ(ə)l/
[UK]/ˌʌn'soʃl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. not sociable; not gregarious; solitary; not good at socializing.

Example Sentences

the unsocial behaviour of young teenagers.

Real-world Examples

But even then, think of how fundamentally unsocial the situation is.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

We're becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfies to engage with one another, and look into someone's eyes.

Source: Listen to a little bit of fresh news every day.

The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

Six days a week. So I have to work very unsocial hours.

Source: CET-4 Intensive Listening

People who have to work in shifh with unsocial hours are paid extra for the inconvenience.

Source: Advanced Interpretation Listening Fourth Edition

But surely there need be no wonder in that, since you have been travelling; and clearly from all you have been saying, in unsocial countries.

Source: News from Wuyou Township (Part 1)

I work 9 to 3, then I start again at 5: 30 and work until 11, six days a week. So I have to work very unsocial hours.

Source: Level 4 Listening 3

There are two very easy and effectual remedies, however, by whose joint operation the state might, without violence, correct whatever was unsocial or disagreeably rigorous in the morals of all the little sects into which the country was divided.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

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