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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
antisocial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
antisocial
▪ antisocial behaviour such as spitting and swearing in public
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Because she was so shy, people often thought she was antisocial.
▪ Kip had always been shy, even antisocial.
▪ Not everyone who likes playing computer games is an antisocial loner.
▪ Smoking cigarettes in public is increasingly considered antisocial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As I hope to demonstrate later, by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial.
▪ Communal, racist, and antisocial.
▪ Gender is a bureaucratic solution to an antisocial habit.
▪ In children too there seems to be an increase in problems relating to antisocial, aggressive conduct and delinquent acts.
▪ Now he was on a more obviously antisocial mission.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antisocial

Antisocial \An`ti*so"cial\, a. Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

Wiktionary
antisocial

a. 1 Unwilling or unable to associate normally with other people 2 antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing 3 Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society n. An antisocial individual.

WordNet
antisocial
  1. adj. shunning contact with others; "standoffish and antisocial"; "he's not antisocial; just shy"

  2. unwilling or unable to conform to normal standards of social behavior; "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior" [syn: asocial]

Wikipedia
Antisocial

Antisocial may refer to:

Antisocial (song)

"Antisocial" is a song by the French hard rock band Trust, from their album Répression. The song was written by Bernie Bonvoisin and Norbert Krief.

Antisocial (album)

Antisocial is the first full-length album released by Turn, an Irish rock trio from Kells, County Meath. Turn began recording the album around 1998 and one of the tracks ("Beretta") appeared on the Check My Ears EP, which the band released in 2000. The album was released on Infectious Records in 2000 to favourable reviews in both the Irish and British press. Constant touring before and after its release gained the band a wide Irish and UK fan base and they played a host of sell-out shows across the two countries.

Antisocial (film)

Antisocial is a 2013 Canadian sci-fi horror film and the feature film directorial debut of Cody Calahan. The film had its world premiere on 31 July 2013 at the Fantasia Film Festival and a sequel entitled Antisocial 2 is currently in post-production, with a projected release date of 2015. Both films predominantly center on Sam, a young woman that finds herself in the middle of a pandemic where disease sufferers suddenly begin showing strange symptoms and violent behavior.

Usage examples of "antisocial".

The latter is a specific variant of codependent that derives gratification from a relationship with a narcissist or an Antisocial Personality Disordered partner.

As much of an outcast as Joel had become, she insists that he never exhibited any antisocial behavior.

He had done postdoctoral work in neurophysiology, was a lecturer on antisocial personality disorder, and was the director of the New York Forensic Mental Health Group.

But I wonder how someone sane could immerse himself in such insanity, especially when there was no evidence of antisocial behavior prior to the killings.

The sexual acts in which Richard Hudson engaged each of these three women involved a high degree of probability that they would result in their deaths, and he committed those acts for a base, antisocial purpose and with wanton disregard for the lives of Victoria Mitten, Jane Sorensen, and Marian Browning.

So I ask you again, when the owner of that defective car gets into it and drives over Gough or Franklin streets, knowing those streets are extremely unsafe for cars with faulty brakes, and then injures or kills someone when the brakes do fail, do you advocate that the driver not be held accountable for his reckless, despicably antisocial behavior?

Doctor, in terms of the sexual connotations you mention - would it be equally possible for an antisocial mind to fixate on a man, or - boy?

She had never really found a partner that inspired a lot of interest in it for her, but the company required employees to share sexual favors, not necessarily as recreation, but to cut down on emotional stress and she participated often enough to keep her name off of the antisocial list.

She seemed to chain-smoke cigarettes and always have one in her mouth and one in an ashtray, even though the things were considered unsafe and antisocial almost everywhere.

That paranoia could be just a hint of the latent, hostile, antisocial feelings that have grown up over the years.

He is being sent to the correctional facility for antisocial behavior on Jango.

Many a day had elapsed since they had dared to sing these blasphemous and antisocial songs in public.

Every writer begins as a subversive, if in nothing more than the antisocial means by which he earns his keep.

Whatever rapport Bloor and I had developed with the Striker people was wearing very thin after three days of increasingly strange behavior and the antisocial attitude we apparently manifested at the big Striker cocktail party at the Punta Morena beach bar was clearly unacceptable.

Bipolar disorder, periodic antisocial behavior, manic episodes of moderate severity, grandiose and persecutory delusions.