Synonyms for antisocial
ˌæn tiˈsoʊ ʃəl, ˌæn taɪ-an·ti·so·cial

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1. antisocialadjective

   shunning contact with others

   "standoffish and antisocial"; "he's not antisocial; just shy"

   Synonyms:
   asocial

   Antonyms:
   sociable, social

2. antisocial, asocialadjective

   hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior

   "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior"; "an antisocial deed"

   Synonyms:
   asocial

   Antonyms:
   sociable, social

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1. List of paraphrases for "antisocial":

   anti-social, anti-society, asocial, anti-grassroots

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1. Wilbur Ross:

   There's no reason for tariffs to increase the price of steel by far more than the percentage of the tariff, and yet that's what has been happening, that clearly is not a result of the tariff, that's clearly a result of antisocial behavior by participants in the industry.

2. John Kelly:

   Asocial is pretty much somebody that likes to be alone…they’re not hurting anybody, antisocial is when you strike out at society and have a lot of anger and resentment.

3. Joan Didion:

   It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

4. Adonis Sfera:

   As their behavior looks like mental illness, some of these people end up admitted in psychiatric hospitals, while others are imprisoned or placed in state psychiatric hospitals after being diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.

5. Adam Lankford:

   There are several pathways we observe : antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking, in a workplace shooting, you want to look at the latter two as most likely.