(a.) Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) High morbidity of such persons is often contributed to their antisocial way of life, and alcohol and drug addiction.
(2) Data from the National Longitudinal Youth Survey (NLSY) were analyzed to study interrelationships between antisocial behaviors in early adolescence (ages 14-15) and late adolescent alcohol and drug use 4 years later (when adolescents were 18-19).
(3) This violent potential was reflected by the presence among the alcoholics involved of more past and present antisocial traits, a higher rating on the Nicol's scale of violence, more offences committed against the person and homicidal behaviour.
(4) severe psychological distress ('disassuagement') when support-givers cannot be induced to act effectively, with a propensity to devise defensive strategies, supplemented by psychological defence mechanisms; when maladaptive, these strategies are the source of neurotic symptoms and antisocial traits.
(5) Previous analyses of adoptees from Lutheran Social Services of Iowa developed a multifactorial model of adoptee alcohol abuse that related abuse to three factors: biologic background of alcohol-related problems, biologic background of antisocial problems and exposure to an adoptive family where family members had alcohol-related problems.
(6) Firesetting in children and adolescents is commonly associated with other antisocial acts that comprise conduct disorders.
(7) In addition, significant adults, such as group therapists, filled out pre- and posttest inventories to measure antisocial behavior.
(8) It screens for the DSM-III criterion-based diagnostic categories of neurosis (dysphoric, compulsive, anxious), somatization, conduct disorder (antisocial, violent), and hyperactivity.
(9) But for older children, Teather gave the examples of preventing teenage pregnancies, reducing drug-taking or tackling antisocial behaviour.
(10) Starting with a critique of the DSM-III-R description of the antisocial personality disorder, the author reviews some salient contributions to the concept of the antisocial personality disorder derived from descriptive, sociologic, and psychoanalytic viewpoints.
(11) With standardized ages, the group of subjects with antisocial personality had a clearly lower mean level of serum cholesterol than the group with other personality disorders which was used as a control group.
(12) The antisocial alcoholic is at high risk of behavioral complications, including aggressive, violent behavior and accidental injury.
(13) The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial parentage with male and female controls, male adoptees of antisocial parentage, and male and female adoptees whose biological parents had other psychiatric conditions.
(14) At the scale level, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated that the scores obtained by the Black and White groups were significantly different in 9 of the 20 scales (Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Paraphrenia, Hypomania, Dysthymia, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Psychotic Delusion).
(15) We report on our analysis of a patient who developed personality changes which strongly resembled an antisocial personality disorder after surgical resection of a pituitary tumor.
(16) Among the 73 ADD probands, 33 (45%) met criteria for OPD, 24 (33%) met criteria for CD, and 16 (22%) had no antisocial diagnosis.
(17) Subjects with partial seizures were rated as slightly more aggressive and antisocial than those with generalized seizures.
(18) Abedi, too, smoked cannabis, drank and, according to at least one source, was known to the authorities for antisocial behaviour.
(19) Police in Newcastle have launched a task force specifically to tackle the problem after they received 96 calls for antisocial behaviour linked to use of legal highs in just two weeks.
(20) The arachidonic acid metabolites PGE2 and TxB2 were elevated in violent antisocial personality.
Unfriendly
Definition:
(a.) Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
(a.) Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coulson said he had been on '"not unfriendly terms" with Hayman during his time at the News of the World: "I may have seen him socially, but we were not pals.
(2) Because we see a regime as unfriendly, we assume the worst motives and intentions, fuelling our perception of threat.
(3) And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” On Monday the Russian foreign ministry said that US-Russian relations are enduring a difficult period “because of the targeted unfriendly actions of Washington”.
(4) "Declaring the EU offices to be a legitimate attack target is more than the unfriendly act of a machine that knows no bounds and may be out of the control of politics and the courts."
(5) During the cold war, the US also employed economic sanctions to destabilise unfriendly governments, especially in Latin America, though they do not appear to have played more than a minor role, even where regime change eventually occurred.
(6) Facebook, which was targeted last year by the Greenpeace Unfriend Coal campaign, is building a new data centre in Sweden, its largest yet, to be powered by hydroelectricity.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russia cancels Turkey meeting and warns its citizens not to visit The Russian defence ministry said on its website that it considered the “actions of the Turkish air force as an unfriendly act”, adding that it was “designing a complex of measures directed to respond such incidents”.
(8) Oddly, that unfriendly-to-women aura remained in not-gay David Steel's milieu.
(9) He added: “It is nothing less than an unfriendly act which is already having a very serious impact on bilateral relations.” Natalegawa said summoning the ambassador was “not considered a light step” but was the “minimum” that could be done to “consolidate the situation”.
(10) "Hate the new website as it is so tricky to use," wrote Sarah Milford, while another customer, Kay Floyd, commented: "Refuse to shop online as the website is the most user unfriendly and awkward to navigate.
(11) Gay's the Word has survived having its stock seized on grounds of indecency by customs officers; it has been threatened by soaring rents, unfriendly council policies, and the rise of internet selling.
(12) High P scorers have been found to be cold, unfriendly, hostile, etc., and it is suggested that the lower P scores of the intravenous users may be partly due to possible hostility-reducing effects of the narcotics used by this group.
(13) This, said Kadyrov, was because Putin is a “wise, courageous, resolute Head, who managed to withstand unfriendly campaign, which is conducted by the USA and its assistants”.
(14) Liu Xiaoming more than hinted that the 11th-hour postponement was seen as an unfriendly move and that the new government risked jeopardising future relations with China more broadly.
(15) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
(16) It is not, perhaps, the easiest time to become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), especially with a general election on the way and the voluble, airwaves-friendly but coalition-unfriendly Clare Gerada act to follow.
(17) Having an occupant of the White House who is unfriendly towards your business is not a comfortable position,” Saunders added.
(18) This doesn’t bother me now that I’m settled in but in the beginning I was very unhappy in what I thought was a cold, unfriendly city.
(19) People often assume that budget flights are somehow more eco-unfriendly than expensive ones.
(20) "The government gave the clear impression that this had been done at the request of the Church of England … but the bishop of Leicester said: 'We didn't ask for it' … and was very upset about it because it gave the impression that the Church of England were unfriendly towards gays."