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Example sentences for "antisocial"

Lexicographically close words:
antisepsis; antiseptic; antiseptics; antiserum; antislavery; antispasmodic; antispasmodics; antistrophe; antisyphilitic; antitank
  1. On the whole, however, unnatural intercourse (sodomy) has been regarded as an antisocial offense, and punishable sometimes by the most serious penalties that could be invented.

  2. It is not merely that the fetich is invoked occasionally in aid of antisocial desires: nothing can prevent the worshipper of a god, if the worshipper be bad enough, from praying for that which he ought not to pray for.

  3. In fine, the practice of using like to produce like comes to be looked on with loathing and with dread when it is employed for antisocial purposes.

  4. Nevertheless, this mass of youth is on the whole in an unnatural position--an antisocial relation.

  5. The home can be, if it will, the most antisocial force in existence, for it can, if it will, exist practically for itself.

  6. It is the failure to do this which is at the bottom of woman's present disorderly and antisocial handling of three of the leading occupations of her life--her clothes, her domestics, and her daughter.

  7. Moreover, if the deplorable social influence of money and the attraction it exerts could be eliminated, antisocial acts, which only depend indirectly on the sexual passions, would lose much of their danger and infamy.

  8. In this way ignorance of the laws of heredity and the rapacity of pecuniary interests perpetually tend toward the antisocial procreation of a degenerate posterity.

  9. Obviously, that sort of antisocial behavior can't be allowed.

  10. Nobody wanted to risk his lifelong security by doing or saying something that might be considered antisocial by a busy general.

  11. Instead, it was considered antisocial for a woman to refuse to give herself to other men; to do so might indicate that she thought herself superior or thought her husband to be superior to other men.

  12. As time goes on, your automatic promotions will put you in a position to vote on such matters--provided you don't prejudice the Promotion Board against you by antisocial behavior.

  13. Setting yourself up as someone superior to the Strategy Board is the most antisocial type of egocentrism imaginable.

  14. The angry, antisocial person is most emphatically an irreligious person; there can be no love of his brother man where that spirit is.

  15. Do we guide the conversation of visitors and the family group so that antisocial passions are subdued and a spirit of brotherly love and compassion for all is cultivated?

  16. No amount of Sunday-school teaching on the Beatitudes or week-day teaching on civics is going to overcome the down-drag of envious, antisocial thought and feeling and conversation in the home.

  17. The sociologists recognize that it is not a question of vicious and criminal individuals, but one of an antisocial atmosphere, of immoral traditions and surroundings, through which crime flourishes and vice is fostered.

  18. In the atmosphere of sham-truth all the antisocial instincts grow rankly.

  19. Yet it is no less confusing and no less antisocial if the world which one sees as a system of causes and effects is to another a realm of capricious, causeless, zigzag happenings.

  20. But what is needed is a wholesome national self-control by which an antisocial growth of these emotions will be suppressed.

  21. It is the fountain head of all inhuman and antisocial feeling.

  22. When heresy took on so alien and perverse an aspect as the Catharist errors, which were at root the negation of Christian standards and a veritable antisocial menace, it needed but an incident to start a crusade against heretics in France.

  23. Officials point out that the percentage of young people that have become criminals or whose antisocial conduct gets most of the publicity is very small.

  24. The isolation and exclusiveness of a gang or clique brings its antisocial spirit into relief.

  25. The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism.

  26. The varieties which nature really produces are brains which are more liable than others to produce antisocial actions.

  27. Here again we have not a special class of brains which are criminal; but we have an endless variety of brains with a greater or smaller predisposition for antisocial outbreaks.

  28. The fact that selfish and thus antisocial desires awake in the mind is not abnormal at all; only if they are not normally inhibited, the disturbance sets in.

  29. If such cases should come early to suggestive treatment which really would close the channels of the antisocial autosuggestion, much harm might be averted.

  30. It sounds like an easy remedy for the greatest social calamity, if it is proposed simply to hypnotize the criminal and to supplant his antisocial will by a moral one.

  31. Yet again the liability of the brain to become antisocial would not have been removed, and thus not much would be secured unless such a person after the treatment could be kept under favorable conditions.

  32. Students should be aware of how "unattached" children are set up for failure and antisocial behavior disorders, by poor bonding with the parent in the first few months and years of life.

  33. All sorts of antisocial arts may be practised for his destruction.

  34. Over against it stands the antisocial character of magic, at any rate when directed against individuals.

  35. Methods of reform and reclamation are made necessary, because youthful impulses are not gratified in a way that would be beneficial, and habits are allowed to develop that lead to antisocial practices.

  36. Even such antisocial persons as outlaws frequently move in bands and have their chiefs.

  37. I cannot but think that evangelical religion has an antisocial tendency, and would, if generally prevalent, deprive us of all our innocent recreations.

  38. Illuminati" was a game of paranoiac conspiracy in which various antisocial cults warred covertly to dominate the world.

  39. First, it should be acknowledged that spreading knowledge about demolitions to teenagers is a highly and deliberately antisocial act.

  40. This was some new level of antisocial daring.

  41. I always knew Bill would get into trouble sooner or later with his wild, antisocial ideas.

  42. Popular assumptions of post-disaster behavior include antisocial behavior and the need for martial law, the breakdown of government institutions, and the requirement for the quick assertion of outside leadership and control.

  43. It concerns patients of a very labile make-up with increased affective reactions, with marked tendencies to impulsions and antisocial acts.

  44. Thus we see that along with his antisocial sublimation of his anal eroticism, the patient attempted a more useful sublimation.

  45. His conduct here was characterized throughout his entire stay by the same attributes of character which were at play throughout his entire antisocial existence.

  46. As soon, however, as their abnormality manifests itself in distinct incorrigible antisocial tendencies, the right of society to protect itself from such an element must be considered.

  47. From the criteria of the Antisocial Personality Disorder).

  48. Consumption of alcohol is not excessive when compared with that of other European countries, but it has been increasing steadily and has been a major contributor to crime and antisocial behavior.

  49. Because of Bulgaria's antisocial behavior in the world community, the country was excluded from the United Nations until 1955.

  50. The individual is assumed to be by nature an antisocial being.

  51. As we have seen, the crowd is always formed for the unconscious purpose of relaxing the social control by mechanisms which mutually justify such antisocial conduct on the part of members of the crowd.

  52. There are certain mental abnormalities, such as dementia praecox, in which the individual behaves in a wholly antisocial manner, simply withdrawing into himself.

  53. Its use beyond the moderate limit of the first degree of personal relations is antisocial to the degree of criminality, whether it be used as the weapon of organized workers or of organized wealth.

  54. Some apparent profits are due to antisocial or criminal acts.

  55. The open or secret use of violence and other antisocial forces make much of this boasted service to some of the workers, an injury to others, and an occasion of reproach from the citizen who condemns the spirit of lawlessness thus encouraged.

  56. There is, therefore, an antisocial element in them not found in the profits of ordinary industry.

  57. No code of laws can be framed that will make possible the punishment of all antisocial acts.

  58. This expectation also must have been confirmed by the facts, for if antisocial and unjust conduct had habitually prevailed among men, social life would have been impossible.

  59. More than that, they are benevolent or hostile; they are related to us in various social or antisocial ways.

  60. Antisocial beings are almost always mentally and physically dawdlers, who are incapable of continuous mental or physical labour.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antisocial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.