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  • adverb In an antisocial manner.

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Examples

  • However, past experiments had suggested that chimps were loath to share, being what scientists had classified as antisocially selfish instead of pro-socially altruistic.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Initially, the order focused mainly on the area around the supermarket and adjacent bus station, but when groups of young people who were deemed to be behaving antisocially relocated, it was extended to cover most of the town centre.

    Teens are left to their own devices as council axes all youth services 2011

  • The album material is of a piece with Benga and Skream's club-minded solo tracks, so even a song like Top 10 hit I Need Air, with its corny, trance-style synth motif, becomes crushingly, antisocially heavy.

    Magnetic Man ? review Dorian Lynskey 2010

  • They can ban someone who behaves “antisocially” while drinking, but not if that person is mentally ill or an alcoholic?

    dustbury.com » To the wagon with you 2010

  • Also, more testosterone tends to make people behave more antisocially -- go figure.

    Dr. Ali Binazir: Are You 'Muggable' in Your Relationships? 2010

  • They retain the power to act antisocially, and often make use of it.

    Confirmation Bias and ID 2006

  • What this is is releases that he has made telling people in similar situations in prisons and people outside of prisons that they cannot go astray and act antisocially.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005 2005

  • His big brain had concealed from his soul until the last possible moment its conclusion that it was now time for him to act antisocially.

    Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

  • Supt Neil Jerome, head of Kent Police's crime reduction department, said it is a way of diverting them away from the possibility of behaving antisocially.

    Kos RSS Feed 2010

  • Supt Neil Jerome, head of Kent Police's crime reduction department, said it is a way of diverting them away from the possibility of behaving antisocially.

    Kos RSS Feed 2010

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