insociable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insociable
Adjective
  • Stanley Hudson, Angela Martin, and Karen Filippelli As far as being antisocial is concerned, Stanley Hudson takes the cake.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Playing Seok required learning more about antisocial behavior and yet the character is more than a textbook example of a disorder.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
  • To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and earned a six-minute standing ovation, Fraser plays a reclusive writing professor, Charlie, attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
    Diana Pearl, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Also new to the list and appearing at No. 5: the Krishnan family, heirs of a telecom-to-energy empire built by reclusive billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who died in November at age 86.
    Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The film, directed by Vivek Soni, marks Madhavan’s return to the romance genre and follows an unlikely relationship between a 40-something introverted teacher and a confident 30-something woman who is a French teacher.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In The Amateur, Malek, 43, plays an introverted CIA analyst who seeks revenge on the men who killed his wife, played by Brosnahan, 34.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Insociable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insociable. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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