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unˈsocial, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
Not social; not inclined for, adapted to, or fond of society: a. Of persons (or animals).
1731A. Hill Adv. Poets Ep. p. vii, Even Tartary, uncultivated, and unsocial, as she is, has given the World a Tamerlane. 1758L. Temple Sketches (ed. 2) 67 To be perpetually wise, is forbidding, unsocial, and something that does not become human Nature. 1817Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xvi. II. 12 Neither of these motives can operate in causing unsocial insects to congregate. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 298 My unsocial neighbour startled me..by gravely propounding that he [sc. Scott] was not a Christian.
transf.1781Cowper Charity 126 To give the pole the produce of the sun, And knit th' unsocial climates into one.
b. Of habits, conditions, etc.
unsocial hours, socially inconvenient working hours.
1734A. Hill On Death of Dennis 1 Adieu! unsocial excellence! at last Thy foes are vanquish'd. 1744Harris Three Treat. (1765) 152 A solitary, unsocial State, can never supply tolerably the common Necessaries of Life. 1791Boswell Johnson 25 June 1763, The mode of dining..at such houses in London, is..particularly unsocial. 1826Lamb Elia ii. Pop. Fallacies xv, What savage unsocial nights must our ancestors have spent..! 1884Century Mag. XXVIII. 620 The unsocial effect of the drinking habit.
1973Times 4 Dec. 1/1 A proposed unsocial hours payment in recognition of the odd times of the day and night that a [train] driver has to report for duty. 1976Evening Post (Nottingham) 17 Dec. 15/7 (Advt.), Waiter-waitress required for Lenton Hall of Residence... Good holidays and unsocial hours payment for week-end work. 1982Economist 13 Nov. 50/1 If the government is to avoid the annual pay squabble with the nurses the new review body should first establish realistic pay scales..taking into account the unsocial hours. 1984Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 July 145/2 The unsocial hours during which most emergency operating is done has meant that much of it has been unsupervised.
c. Of disposition, temper, etc.
1739Glover London 212 Benignant peace With hospitality begin to sooth Unsocial rapine, and the thirst of blood. 1775Sheridan Rivals v. i, Perhaps the recollection of a deed my conscience cannot justify may haunt me in such gloomy and unsocial fits, that [etc.]. 1816Remarks Eng. Mann. 3 Our unsocial turn he ascribes to ‘that independence Britons prize too high’. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. ii. §15 The man himself was of too unsocial and forbidding a temper to conciliate them. 1885Manch. Exam. 12 Feb. 4/7 The unsocial selfishness which excluded the toiling populations from their national health-giving scenes.
Hence unˈsocialism, (a) the quality of being unsocial; (b) an absence of socialism (rare).
1849W. Hanna Mem. Chalmers II. 422 Behind all his assumed unsocialism there lay a true warm heart. 1889G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 4 The gambling spirit urges man to..secure some acres of her [sc. Stepmother Earth]... This is Private Property or Unsocialism. |