dissocial
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- dissociality noun
Etymology
Origin of dissocial
1755–65; < Late Latin dissociālis irreconcilable, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + sociālis sociable ( see social)
Example Sentences
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A psychiatric report found he had dissocial personality disorder and was highly narcissistic.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2021
The self-regarding motives are, ex hypothesi, not so closely related to utility as the social motives, and the dissocial motives manifestly stand at the bottom of the scale.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
The effect of this is to produce narrow minds, or, what is worse, narrow hearts on one side, and a host of dissocial, irritable passions on the other.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
In most persons, and in all, at different periods, the amiable and social propensities predominate over the dissocial and malign.
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
Virtue does not consist in being controlled by amiable, instead of dissocial and malign impulses, and in a consequent exterior of a corresponding beauty and loveliness.
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
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