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Meanings of unsociable in English

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esquerp
Spanish
insociable

Not inclined to society or companionship.

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        Usage of unsociable in English
        1
        But the offer comes with cuts to payments for unsociable working hours.
        BBC
        2
        He that refused a pipe in company was accounted peevish and unsociable.
        Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commer...
        3
        The English are inartistic for the same reason that they are unsociable.
        Character
        4
        Pyrgus had been caught leaving Lord Hairstreak's manor at an unsociable hour.
        Faerie Wars
        5
        Sir Marsham Dykes, of The Chase, Stanning: A damned unsociable churlish fellow.
        Okewood of the Secret Service
        6
        An unsociable meal it was-almostas unpleasant as were their inward thoughts.
        The Channings: A Story
        7
        Only Raymie was so unsociable as to devote himself entirely to acting.
        Main Street
        8
        She had felt lonely at times, silent and unsociable, but never shy!
        More About Peggy
        9
        Why, you look as unsociable as your uncle, sitting there all alone!
        Beulah
        10
        The cause of this isolation lies in the unsociable temper of the proprietress.
        The Mason-Bees
        11
        The general construction put upon her proud reserve was that she was unsociable.
        Mr. Pat's Little Girl: A Story of the Arden Foresters
        12
        She says it was her choice to take Lund in an unsociable direction.
        The Guardian
        13
        He was become the prey of a gloomy and unsociable grief.
        Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
        14
        He is unsociable and unamiable, disliking the society of other birds.
        Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
        15
        She said it seemed rather unkind and unsociable on my part.
        The Diary of a Nobody
        16
        The impression I already had of a solitary, unsociable male occupant was reinforced.
        Long time coming: a novel
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        Unsociable through the time
        Unsociable across language varieties
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