Anti-social


unwilling or unable to -ssociate in a normal or friendly way with other people:
he’s not antisocial, just shy.
antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing; threatening:
an antisocial act.
opposed or detrimental to order or the principles on which society is const-tuted:
antisocial behavior.
psychiatry. of or relating to a pattern of behavior in which norms and the rights of others are persistently violated.
a person exhibiting antisocial traits.
contemporary examples

from my national post column: when anti-social behavior masquerades as “free speech”.
the -ss-ssin’s gun: internet liberty gone way too far david frum may 10, 2013

this quote is supposed to confirm thatcher as an anti-social radical individualist of the ayn rand distemper.
context for margaret thatcher’s ‘there is no such thing as society’ remarks david frum april 7, 2013

the brother was an anti-social, self-mythologizing would-be rock star.
our favorite books of 2012: tina brown, andrew sullivan, and others’ picks the daily beast december 10, 2012

historical examples

then there is an idea that religion is a conservative power, useful as a bulwark against the -ssaults of anti-social fanatics.
education and the higher life j. l. spalding

that would have been anti-social egoism; we called it “showing off.”
alarms and discursions g. k. chesterton

who would there be to prevent and repress crimes, that is, anti-social acts?
anarchy errico malatesta

what, then it may be asked, are the causes that produce this anti-social being?
a plea for the criminal james leslie allan kayll

they announced it on the radio and they’re saying it’s due to anti-social elements.
the junkmakers albert r. teichner

the state is to sanction the number of births; all others are immoral, because anti-social.
british socialism j. ellis barker

the family is too narrow; its aims are too petty, selfish, and anti-social.
the son of a servant august strindberg

adjective
avoiding the company of other people; unsociable
contrary or injurious to the interests of society in general
adj.

also antisocial, 1797, from anti- + social (adj.). first-attested use is in sense of “unsociable;” meaning “hostile to social order or norms” is from 1802.

antisocial an·ti·so·cial (ān’tē-sō’shəl, ān’tī-)
adj.
behaving in a manner that violates the social or legal norms of society.
an’ti·so’cial·ly adv.

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