unsocial
Adjective
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Adjective
unsocial
- Not social.
, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France - The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles.
- Not seeking or showing the desire for the company of others; inhospitable.
, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe - The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he; "but since he is so unsocial to Christians, e'en let him take the next stall to Isaac the Jew's. […]
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