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Adjective
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Lisa Frankenstein centers on awkward and antisocial high schooler Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) after the violent demise of her mother.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025 -
As the family starts to get settled in their new environment, their oldest son, Jeremy (Beddoes) begins to show increasingly antisocial and dangerous behavioral issues in their new home.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
2 June 2024
Adjective
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But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.—
Nick CanepaColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2022
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2022
Adjective
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Carol, a reclusive and disgruntled bestselling romantasy author, exhorts her reticent audience of five immune English speakers to reclaim human agency against the milquetoast, obsequious blob and join her in a quest to reverse the happiness apocalypse.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
8 Nov. 2025
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The piece Lee publishes isn’t a Pulitzer-winning takedown, but a posthumous profile of the reclusive, kind-hearted Dale, a man who shares Dale’s love of crime writers like Jim Thompson and instinctive empathy for underdogs.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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McCusker is one of those comics who, paradoxically, can rip through a room with his stand-up while in everyday life being somewhat anxious and introverted.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 Oct. 2025
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The original book, first published in November 2015, chronicled Rhimes’ journey from introverted showrunner to a woman fully stepping into her power.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Insociable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insociable. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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