How To Use Unsocial In A Sentence
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He answered questions from the floor on law and order issues and said that loutish and unsocial behaviour would not be tolerated.
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He argued that most consultants already work unsocial hours, but this is not written down in their agreements, nor is it properly resourced.
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My initial reaction was that he was unfriendly or unsocial, but that was far from the case.
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She is more shy than unsocial.
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'Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man.
Life Of Johnson
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The introduction of new lower rates of pay for working unsocial hours, which would have been a major cause of workers being worse off, has been postponed until April 2006.
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Many young journalists, or student journalists, work unsocial hours at rates of pay that have not increased for at least four years.
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The road-hogging game will also help to create an awareness of the unsocial and dangerous road behaviour out there.
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Hence the growth of a marked unsociality, taking literary form in the Discourses, and practical form in his retirement from the town.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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Any unsocially aggressive men will have to answer to brothel security or the police, of course.
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There was something in the man so far beyond any mere unsociality or sourness previously evinced, that even the forbearing good-nature of his guest could no longer endure it.
The Piazza Tales
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We are regularly told of the acute shortage of surgeons and nurses: could the health trust find the extra medical expertise, willing to work unsocial hours, it would require?
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They also have a very powerful kick, to be avoided at all costs, and have most unsocial habits like peeing on your foot or leaving large deposits for you to stand in.
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They work long and often unsocial hours, take public responsibility and face many stressful situations which other groups of workers rarely do.
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Fighting the most popular storytelling medium is not only a losing battle and horribly snobbish but unsocial too.
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Through this isolation, people have become unsocial and full of apprehension about trusting or opening up to each other.
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While crime, scams, and general unsocial behavior has been on the rise in Pattaya for some time, there seems to be a disturbing trend with Thais putting guns to the heads of foreigners.
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A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.
Mankind in the Making
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I like people, I'm just unsocial because of my hearing, not antisocial.
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He lodges in the town near the school, and thus the debasing habit of unsocial besotment is not brought under the eyes of his superior.
My Novel — Volume 12
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They are growing up uneducated, unsocialized and often unloved, producing a desperate generation.
Globe and Mail
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Whence great discontent among certain of these, who had contributed to make him Abbot: reproaches, open and secret, of his being 'ungrateful, hard-tempered, unsocial, a Norfolk _barrator_ and _paltenerius_.'
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Working long and unsocial hours is a ‘requirement of the job rather than a choice’, according to 75 percent of mothers surveyed.
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Furthermore, better unsocial hours patient care is surely likely when provided by dedicated night shift doctors instead of GPs dragged back out of bed after a day of surgeries and home visits?
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Im not interested in the dumb, slobby, burger-eating, beer-drinking unsocially aware girls.
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The thing was that, with Jakey, the good days were when he was just unsocial with everybody and the bad days were when he cried for our parents or me with little break.
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The fare rises are being introduced to encourage taxi drivers to work during unsocial hours.
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However they are adamant that they will not be ‘unfairly imposed upon to accept further abuse through property damage, theft and general unsocial behaviour’.
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My guess would be that either you think I am unsocial, or you believe I am about to take over the world and want in.
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The ladies in the town below complain through Miss Brett to Mrs. Wolfe of the unsociality of the garrison.
Lectures and Essays
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My initial reaction was that he was unfriendly or unsocial, but that was far from the case.
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The way it performs, responsibly or unsocially, will be monitored by customers, investors and employees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Herself, she’s unsocial and ungregarious, she’s an introvert: she doesn’t like to see other people free and easy and happy, and so she tries to spoil things for them, that’s all.
Tour de Force
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Your report ended with a quote from an unnamed Leeds City Council spokesman to the effect that many local residents are concerned that providing the equipment would lead to noisy and unsocial behaviour.
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She's a nurse so she often works unsocial hours.
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They are also traumatised and unsocialised, which can make them aggressive and anti-social.
The Sun
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Partly such energising is art's responsibility, one that works, by means of what WG Sebald calls "keeping faith with unsocial, banned language", to question, understand and, with any luck, transcend the proscriptions and the inarticulacies of whatever time we happen to live in.
Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am'
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For Deleuze and Guattari, the schizophrenic is a challenge to the political and linguistic systems simultaneously since he utilizes language in unsocial and antisocial ways.
Wandering in the Landscape with Wordsworth and Deleuze
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Kids can't be prosecuted so the police can't do anything more than warn them not to behave unsocially.
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After exposing, with the perfection of fun, the savage unsociality of those elder ancestors who lived (if life it was) before lamp-light was invented, showing that "jokes came in with candles," since "what repartees could have passed" when people were "grumbling at one another in the dark," and "when you must have felt about for a smile, and handled a neighbor's cheek to be sure that he understood it?
Biographical Essays
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A majority of mothers and 79 per cent of fathers frequently work at unsocial hours.
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Now, I'm going to make telephone calls and unsocial arrangements of that sort.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Energy is what I'm missing, that raw, spittly, unsocialized fizz that only an overexcited nerd can produce.
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Those things made me uncomfortable and even more unsocial.
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In essence, the new contract offered more money in return for accepting greater managerial control and the potential to be obliged to work unsocial hours.
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It doesn't seem that people are particularly unsocial now that they've got cell phones, they just have this cell phone addiction that they have to get over first.
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They are also angered at delays to carry out reviews of pay levels for work at unsocial hours and weekends and the withholding of additional payments.
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Staff are often parents who work unsocial hours to allow stores to open whenever is most convenient to customers.
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Watching her 13-year-old daughter falter in her studies and become more and more unsocial has firmed Yang's decision to divorce.
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It was designed to tackle unsocial behaviour such as loud music, rowdy or offensive behaviour or dog control in Braintree, Witham and Halstead, by getting those responsible to sign a contract promising to mend their ways.
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Shift work and unsocial hours leave a fair bit of time to trawl the Web, and to add one's own five penn'orth to the blogosphere.
Another One Bites The Dust
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Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position.
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A new group has been formed which will look into ways of putting an end to unsocial behaviour, which has been causing concern to many residents in the area.
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In firm and lofty character, pain is mastered; in a character so little endowed with cool tenacious strength as Rousseau's, pain such as he endured was enough to account, not for his unsociality, which flowed from temperament, but for the bitter, irritable, and suspicious form which this unsociality now first assumed.
Rousseau
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A much overlooked irony with social networking sites is that, although they are supposedly ‘social’, their use requires one to very unsocially spend time behind one's PC.
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The pay was low and the hours were often unsocial.
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On the negative side, the directive has resulted in unsocial shifts and yet another tier of bureaucracy to ensure that rotas are compliant.
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Feeling distinctly unsocial, Gabriel turned to the countess.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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‘Gardaí have been called there on numerous occasions and there's a lot of unsocial behaviour going on,’ he said.
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Many social workers work unsocial hours and work incredibly hard.
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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lived an unsocial reclusive life
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Deputy Sen O Fearghail, who also heads the Cill Dara Housing Association, said in the CYMS on Friday, that unsocial behaviour among tenants would not be tolerated.
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What would happen when shy, unsocial girl meets with cold, gang boy?
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Somehow the town needs to regain ownership and pride in the river, rather than turn our backs so we can hide from the unsocial behaviour in its bed.
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‘You may think him bookish and unsocial now, but as he matures he'll come to love the court, as you do.’
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The driver goes out in the foulest weather conditions at the most unsocial hours to keep us safe.
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Honestly Frank, I hired you because of your ability to be unapologetically unsocial.
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Many of these are women and black workers in low status, low paid jobs with unsocial hours.
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He is more shy than unsocial.
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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Foer works this mock-heroic metaphor to death, honouring his colleagues – ill-groomed and unsocialised wonks, who wear blinkers and blacked-out goggles when competing – as "mental athletes" or "warriors of the mind".
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review
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I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
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Shift work and unsocial hours leave a fair bit of time to trawl the Web, and to add one's own five penn'orth to the blogosphere.
Another One Bites The Dust
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There can be nothing more unsocial and callous than smoking in a crowded public place such as a cinema or a bus stand.
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They want a lot more from these talks, especially on issues like unsocial hours premiums, which under the current proposals would make them worse off.
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Carers therefore often have little control over the amount of time they work, and many care agencies do not pay more for these unsocial hours.
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A few chairs were filled with unsocial people that seemed to already know each other.
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The defendant had put nearly £20,000, his life savings, into the post office believing he would ultimately become a partner but he worked long unsocial hours and was not rewarded.
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the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors
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On the one hand, he follows the exploits of the boys, without digging too deep into motivation or sexuality, and on the other stays personal with Cassie, without attempting to explain her unsocial behaviour.
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Mostly because of a large increase in illegitimacy since 1970, Lykken says, "across the land, but mainly in the inner cities, thousands of children aren't being brought up by, but only domiciled with, parents who are indifferent, incompetent, or unsocialized themselves.
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