How to Use antisocial in a Sentence

antisocial

adjective
  • She's not being antisocial; she's just shy at parties.
  • To pee in a bottle and leave it on a public street is a deeply antisocial act.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Facebook is growing antisocial or, at the very least, a bit cliquey.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Maybe that seems like a hot take from a grouchy, antisocial misanthrope (still not wrong).
    — Clay Skipper, GQ, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Walnut was a graceful, strong-willed bird, if a tad antisocial.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The geese there are more antisocial than your grandfather at a craft beer festival.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Due to their antisocial behavior, psychopaths and sociopaths are clever and hard to spot.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The pissed off punk rockers, the hopelessly antisocial geeks, and the kids doing drugs.
    — David Alvarado, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Others said he was rarely seen at school, was secluded and somewhat antisocial.
    — chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • Depending on their age, bringing a toy that’s not messy, loud or antisocial — like a tablet — may be helpful.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The plan goes awry, however, and the lunch ends up in front of an antisocial widower instead.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2020
  • When healths were raised during the eighteenth century, it was considered rude or antisocial not to go along with them.
    — Brooke Barbier, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • Twitter, however, is not the first or only platform to adopt antisocial changes.
    — Jeffrey Edell, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • No amount of nerding harder will change this baseline of antisocial behavior.
    — Eric Goldman and Jess Miers, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2019
  • What this shows, researchers suggest, is that people will pay a cost to punish antisocial behavior.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • All of them do, and all of them need years of maturity and parental intervention to leave behind their antisocial ways.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • If the paralegal was quiet and focused only on work, managers said to stop being antisocial and hard to approach.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Many of them show signs of problem behavior in their early years and then engage in antisocial or violent behavior for most of their lives.
    — Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
  • People seem to have this notion that introverts are antisocial because of their love for solitude, but that's completely false.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • At the time, Zuckerberg had a reputation as an antisocial geek whose promising young company was on the skids.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • In many of the recent tragedies, the shooters were described as loners, full of emotional pain and who, at times, were blatantly antisocial.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • By studying the brains of the zebrafish, the team pinpointed a possible cause of the antisocial behavior.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But the paper failed to consider the role of antisocial traits, such as aggression and opposition.
    — Francis Vergunst, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2019
  • More than a decade later, at age 15, the children self-reported on their antisocial behavior.
    — John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Lurking beneath the antisocial facade is a simmering sense of pride for these depths of depravity.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But Teixeira was notorious among his classmates for racist and antisocial views and his obsession with weapons.
    — Matthew Connelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2023
  • Just the biggest jerk of a disease ruining my social life by forcing me to be actually antisocial, much like the name of this column.
    — Danielle C. Belton, The Root, 28 Sep. 2017
  • That means that the child is inadvertently traumatized and is antisocial.
    — Megan Shinn, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • To be sure, there’s no need to cross the line and be complicit in any antisocial, unethical, or destructive behaviors.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Someone with antisocial traits may appear calm most of the time, but suddenly react strongly to obstacles or conflict.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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