unsociable
adjective
not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
unsociableness
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a word derived from
unsociable.
Example Sentences
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Revived at the City Center, it suffers less from the ravages of time than from the unsociableness of space: in that vast hall, the play's intimate, childlike mood never quite lassoes the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
They tried the blue ants, and then the lizards that lived under the leaves in the violet bed; but met with nothing but unsociableness.
From The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
And under the force of this tradition we idealise the rugged and unmanageable, we find something heroic in rough clothes and hands, in bad manners, insensitive behaviour, and unsociableness.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
All this apparent unsociableness is merely shyness—the national characteristic of the Englishman.
From Character by Samuel Smiles
An intimacy sprang up between the Rameyevs and Trirodov—that is, to the extent that Trirodov's unsociableness and love of a solitary life permitted him to become intimate.
From The Created Legend by John Cournos
