How to Use antisocial in a Sentence

antisocial

adjective
  • She's not being antisocial; she's just shy at parties.
  • To pee in a bottle and leave it on a public street is a deeply antisocial act.
    Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Facebook is growing antisocial or, at the very least, a bit cliquey.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Maybe that seems like a hot take from a grouchy, antisocial misanthrope (still not wrong).
    Clay Skipper, GQ, 1 Feb. 2018
  • But the Richards of the comics is an obsessive, antisocial stick-in-the-mud and a far cry from the image Krasinski has crafted in recent years.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 6 May 2022
  • The plan goes awry, however, and the lunch ends up in front of an antisocial widower instead.
    Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Walnut was a graceful, strong-willed bird, if a tad antisocial.
    Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Due to their antisocial behavior, psychopaths and sociopaths are clever and hard to spot.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The jokes mostly cast her as antisocial, but at one point got so intense that mods for the Nintendo Switch subreddit had to ban Karen posts.
    Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The geese there are more antisocial than your grandfather at a craft beer festival.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020
  • By studying the brains of the zebrafish, the team pinpointed a possible cause of the antisocial behavior.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The high-school crush who first caught her attention by quoting Marshall McLuhan went on to berate her for being an antisocial snob.
    Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In many of the recent tragedies, the shooters were described as loners, full of emotional pain and who, at times, were blatantly antisocial.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • All of them do, and all of them need years of maturity and parental intervention to leave behind their antisocial ways.
    Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • At the time, Zuckerberg had a reputation as an antisocial geek whose promising young company was on the skids.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Two things about that: This makes Mandalorians perhaps the most antisocial group in the history of any culture.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Fermions are the antisocial members of the particle world.
    Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2020
  • Even the most controversial games like Grand Theft Auto don’t seem to lead to more antisocial behavior.
    Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2022
  • Others said he was rarely seen at school, was secluded and somewhat antisocial.
    chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • If the paralegal was quiet and focused only on work, managers said to stop being antisocial and hard to approach.
    Samantha Masunaga, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Twitter, however, is not the first or only platform to adopt antisocial changes.
    Jeffrey Edell, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • Just the biggest jerk of a disease ruining my social life by forcing me to be actually antisocial, much like the name of this column.
    Danielle C. Belton, The Root, 28 Sep. 2017
  • But at a certain point early in her career, Dana Schutz fell under the spell of an alternative idea: that art might be antisocial instead of social.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • This shutdown is the pure product of the modern GOP, packed with antisocial weirdos and redolent of their inability to govern themselves or anyone else.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • But the paper failed to consider the role of antisocial traits, such as aggression and opposition.
    Francis Vergunst, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2019
  • What this shows, researchers suggest, is that people will pay a cost to punish antisocial behavior.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Nightflyers will follow a group of eight scientists and a telepath who embark on a journey to the edge of the solar system in The Nightflyer, a small ship with a close crew but antisocial captain, on a search for alien life.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The abuse begot criminal and antisocial behavior — Simmons once stabbed another kid in the face with a pencil — which in turn triggered more abuse.
    Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Why doesn’t Donny report the extent of Martha’s antisocial, even violent behavior?
    Shannon Keating, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The lawsuit also acknowledges other extreme antisocial tendencies in the Uvalde shooter's upbringing, including exposure to drug use by his parents and feelings of rage/revenge against the peers who bullied him.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 May 2024

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