Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unfriendly; interfering or tending to interfere with sociability or friendship.
- Disinclined to or unsuitable for society; not social; contracted; selfish: as, a dissocial passion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish.
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- adjective Unfriendly to
society ;selfish .
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Examples
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I would have used the term sociopath but antisocial or dissocial personality disorder are becoming the terms now used.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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I would have used the term sociopath but antisocial or dissocial personality disorder are becoming the terms now used.
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I'd say he has dissocial personality disorder, a form of psychopathology.
What Makes a Superhero Comic a Superhero Comic? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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…The ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases refers to APD as the dissocial personality disorder.
Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005
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It is important for him to grasp the psychic situation of the dissocial child in the very first contact he makes with him, because only then can he know what attitude to adopt.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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To the dissocial child, we are a menace because we represent society, with which he is in conflict.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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The adolescent manifestations come close to symptom formation of the neurotic, psychotic or dissocial order, and merge almost imperceptibly into borderline states, initial, frustrated or fully fledged forms of almost all the mental illnesses p.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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There is a further difficulty in that the dissocial child takes pains to hide his real nature; he misrepresents himself and lies.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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The World Health Organization (WHO) now classifies "dissocial personality disorder" or antisocial personality disorder or sociopathy as a disease.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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This is less the case, however, when the motive is dissocial, such motives being generally less constant, as having reference to a particular, not a general, object; the religious motive, as being more constant, is more pernicious when it has a mischievous issue.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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