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Recent Examples of unsociable 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 Pact and Bectu have been negotiating over terms of their new collective bargaining agreement since last year, with the crew union wanting more conditions in place regarding unsociable hours and the producers’ body saying that many of the requests are unworkable. K.j. Yossman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2022 That made trucking, with its unsociable hours and dingy roadside bathrooms, less attractive. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021 For instance, long and unsociable hours are commonplace, and while this is in part due to the shortage of skilled personnel, there is also a cultural element to this that prohibits many from considering it a viable career. Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021 Gaming has so often been painted with the wrong brush — stereotyped as being isolating and unsociable. Bartosz Skwarczek, Forbes, 17 June 2021 The social media generation is increasingly clueless and unsociable. Susan Glaser, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2020 Samuel Johnson, one recalls, a ferociously unsociable reader, and blind as a bat, was constantly in danger of singeing his wig against his candle. John Sutherland, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsociable
Adjective
  • Growing up, my family would occasionally pile into the car and drive to distant locations for very brief vacations.
    Jason Foodman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions are not some distant diplomatic dispute.
    Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a gated driveway and car port tucked way off and alley, and a detached prefab ADU by Jason Halter of Wonder has a outside entrance from the street and adds another bedroom.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 June 2025
  • Managing national security affairs is not a detached experiment.
    Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • And Some Ice Cream Cream City Ice Cream & Coffeehouse has more than 40 homemade flavors to choose from, plus hot and cold espresso drinks.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 22 June 2025
  • Tooth sensitivity, also known as dentin hypersensitivity, causes tooth pain in response to heat, cold, air flow, or light touch.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Resnick speaks on behalf of seething, antisocial comedians everywhere, explaining and dismissing his quirks with lots of memories childhood, such as a horrible, no-good, very bad Easter egg hunt.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • But poor casting was only half of it — Charles Walters' 1955 adaptation unfortunately reimagines the heroine as an irascible antisocial brat with delusions of grandeur, all explained away by bizarre contemporary psychoanalysis provided in voice-over.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Experts say there are ways to save while still staying cool this summer.
    Talia Wexler, CNBC, 24 June 2025
  • Advertisement Regulate Your Temperature In the case of extreme heat, there are ways to stay cool that don’t involve AC or electric fans.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 24 June 2025

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“Unsociable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsociable. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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