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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsociable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At full whack, I would guess that the Rivera exhibits some very unsociable tendencies indeed.
▪ Being unsociable can be very catching.
▪ Southall was grumpy and unsociable, not like him.
▪ The hours can be long and sometimes unsociable, and the responsibilities testing.
▪ Thomas Fuller Bacon was born in Stamford in 1824 and was considered to be stubborn, selfish and unsociable as a child.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unsociable

Unsociable \Un*so"cia*ble\, a. Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper. -- Un*so"cia*ble*ness, n. -- Un*so"cia*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsociable

c.1600, from un- (1) "not" + sociable (adj.).

Wiktionary
unsociable

a. 1 not needing the company of others 2 not congenial or compatible 3 unfriendly

WordNet
unsociable

adj. not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood" [ant: sociable]

Usage examples of "unsociable".

A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.

Rufinus might be palliated by the jealous and unsociable nature of ambition.

Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude.

France have made it no secret that those of England, as a general thing, are to their perception an inexpressive and speechless race, perpendicular and unsociable, unaddicted to enriching any bareness of contact with verbal or other embroidery.

I had found it upon my sole visita society of misanthropes made up of the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.

It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.

But in their big associations, in the face of free Nature, the unsociable instincts have no opportunity to develop, and the general result is peace and harmony.

Catherine supped with her brother and sister-in-law: Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs on one side and sauciness on the other.

Then he realized, and laughed at the realization, that, however unsociable hatred was, it stirred the blood as well as the imagination.

Shy roe deer traveled through ###riverine### woodlands and boreal forests in small parties - to spring and summer feeding grounds, along with unsociable moose who also frequented the bogs and melt lakes of the steppes.