How To Use Unsociable In A Sentence

  • Seems kind of unsociable, muffling themselves up behind these hedgerows! Flaming June
  • We don't think it is reasonable to pay the enhanced rates paid for unsociable hours working when people are off sick and I know that many other organisations follow a similar principle.
  • Manet was charming, with a richer, warmer, more responsive personality; the unsociable, caustic Degas was guarded and hostile.
  • Their life means juggling time with their children with long hours, unsociable shifts, and with a wage that won't stretch to pay for clothes, trainers and educational trips.
  • But there was something so gloomy and unsociable, so queer and almost weird about the whole aspect and feeling of the place, that a sort of irritable resignation took possession of me.
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  • Thus you appear somewhat unsociable and aloof.
  • Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings. Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, TX Homepage
  • The figure compares favourably with the 100 per cent average for the hotel and catering industry, where unsociable hours and shift work make it a short-term job option for many people.
  • Southend Council is waging war against unsociable dog owners who let their pets foul the street.
  • You'd think a little boy this popular would forget about a girl who was quiet and unsociable like him, but no… He would always find a way to make sure I wasn't alone, wasn't left out.
  • Even twenty seven years into the past, you're still that quiet, unsociable, ghostlike little twit who sits in the back in math class and draws pictures of beings with emerald wings and golden eyes.
  • Once settled into this one, in tune with its surly, unsociable central character, columnist and freelance reporter Frank Corso, the reader will be reluctant to set the book aside, even for meals.
  • The unsociable person is hardly fit for a diplomat.
  • A lonely man,… shy, distrustful, unsociable, irritable and brusque.
  • an unsociable nature...shy and reserved
  • Marshall plays unsociable, awkward detective Luke Stone, and his senior officer and partner is played by Amanda Donohoe.
  • Many key workers are shift workers and no consideration has been given as to how are they meant to get to and from work at unsociable hours.
  • Thus, they all lived together in a harmonious group, apart from the unsociable Hogfoot Right.
  • The same survey suggests we are rearing a generation of unsociable and reticent youngsters.
  • Not only is their action unsociable but it also displays an irreverence to the memory of the dead soldiers it commemorates and a disrespect for those people who have spent so much time and money on looking after the monument.
  • My marriage has broken up. It has made me reclusive and unsociable.
  • He lost his hair, wrote with a trembling hand and later became withdrawn and unsociable - mercury poisoning can do this to you.
  • Parents have known it all along - but it seems today's teenagers are worse than ever when it comes to unsociable habits.
  • We also have our own animal behaviourist, so if there are problems, she also takes a lot of the dogs in agility training, which is quite amazing because very often it is your most unsociable dog that takes to agility.
  • a morose and unsociable manner
  • He was very unsociable, never had anything delivered and never went near the village. LOHENGRIN
  • It is possible that the smaller dog felt threatened all the more so because he was held on a tight leash; alternatively, he may simply be unsociable.
  • And lastly - and most importantly - while Arnie's Place had a brief-but-unforgettable ban on fighting games, claiming they were "unsociable," Sike's always had the latest versions of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. The Dark Side Of Arcading
  • And courier firms, despite employing lots of people to drive unsociable hours through the night to fulfil next day deliveries, flatly refuse to deliver anywhere outside of 9-5.
  • A tall fellow, growing a little stooped: silent, unobliging, unsociable; yet a good lodger in his way, in that he paid his rent, and never disturbed families below him with the carousals and other performances common to young bachelors. The Genius
  • generally unsociable except with intimate friends
  • But because Miss Lucinda Manners was reserved and "unsociable," as the neighbors pronounced her, I did not, therefore, mean to imply that she was inhuman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
  • There is a lot of work to be done at unsociable hours for the councillors, and in theory they need to be contactable at all hours of the day and night so they can act on behalf of their ward constituents.
  • Waiting staff and catering assistants don't only have to put up with occasionally rude customers and unsociable working hours, but they're not even paid all that well to make up for it.
  • However, an even worse attitude is shown by his mother, who dares to question the distribution of leaflets justifiably vilifying her unsociable son.
  • The government took a strong view on this and smoking was now looked upon unsociable, the first time since the 1930's when it was glamorous to smoke.
  • But a staff source said today the letter had fuelled uncertainty about the future of the traditional service where many of the 100 wardens are over 40 and do not work the unsociable shifts covered by the younger PCSOs.
  • An Englishwoman, who met him in Burma, where his main intellectual pursuit was reading the Adelphi magazine, thought him ‘brusque and unsociable with no small talk’.
  • That's the point of me being rude and cold and unsociable.
  • She said that lately you've become quiet, unsociable, just… odd.
  • If I failed in any measure in this respect, they reproached me with being "unsociable," and said; Cape Cod Folks
  • It's unsociable behaviour which we have to deal with in the best way we can.
  • We choose to work these hours, albeit unsociable, to fit in with other commitments, ie: children, working partners and running homes, and you must agree that the hours offered to us are not family-friendly.
  • Officers recognise their job means working unsociable hours, but we are worried it could lead to overload.
  • My marriage has broken up. It has made me reclusive and unsociable.
  • an unsociable neighborhood
  • You may have to work part-time, in a badly paid job with unsociable hours.
  • There are farmers who are a worry because they stay at home, become unsociable and withdraw.
  • It is completely unsociable behaviour which is totally unacceptable.
  • The warder, whose name was Li and who disliked the gruff and unsociable criminal, was mystified to see a Korean looking after a Chinese with brotherly care.
  • In addition, the Connery household apparently play loud music at unsociable hours and generally ‘stomp about’.
  • They are compiling a list of skating no-go areas around the parish - and a blanket ban on skateboarding in unsociable hours is also being put forward.
  • The owner of the car garage, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was parking cars on the land, often disturbing his neighbour with noise and fumes at unsociable hours.
  • A rather rude and tactless comment a few weeks ago when some of them had tried to visit her in hospital had assured them that she was still just as unsociable as before the kidnapping.
  • Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • We also have our own animal behaviourist, so if there are problems, she also takes a lot of the dogs in agility training, which is quite amazing because very often it is your most unsociable dog that takes to agility.
  • Thus, they all lived together in a harmonious group, apart from the unsociable Hogfoot Right.
  • For someone whose lifelong tendency in human interaction has ranged from detached to to unsociable and sometimes all the way to bitchy, it's very strange to find myself becoming pleasant, cordial, and downright nice.
  • Despite the unsociable behaviour of some, which was particularly off-putting to visitors to the Halloween Fair this often ‘dreaded’ time of the year passed off reasonably well.
  • unsociable behavior
  • You are absolutely the most rude, unsociable, uncivilized person I know!
  • Second, of course, is that I'm notoriously unsociable anyway.
  • Thus, they all lived together in a harmonious group, apart from the unsociable Hogfoot Right.
  • They were serious alcoholics, each consuming a bottle of brandy a day, so Hugh kept them company in the habit of drinking, not to seem unsociable, and enjoyed beating them at ping-pong.
  • He went on: ‘Although drink driving has now become unsociable, it's about time that we accept that people driving in a sleepified state should also be social outcasts.’
  • ‘It would seem inevitable that bigger tankers will be required and these may be forced to travel outside working hours and collect milk at unsociable hours,’ said Senator Kenneally.
  • He was very unsociable, never had anything delivered and never went near the village. LOHENGRIN
  • He was very unsociable, never had anything delivered and never went near the village. LOHENGRIN
  • He had enjoyed a good salary for working unsociable hours and the abundant free time during the day for his private research projects.
  • Shift workers throughout North Yorkshire rely on private transport to commute during unsociable hours.
  • They also lost enhancements to pay for working unsociable hours and weekends.
  • Mr Boxall said the Fireworks Regulations 2004 introduced a series of measures to tackle the nuisance caused by fireworks, including a ban on noisy ones and fireworks being set off in unsociable hours.
  • A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.

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