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An entrée that’s too often a boring fallback for the unadventurous diner is transformed, here, into a clever, dazzling reward.
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This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.
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Avoiding is unassertive and uncooperative, where an individual tends to give up on their own needs and acquiesce to the desires of others by disengaging from the situation altogether.
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Especially now, during the daunting age of unsocial media.
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.
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Practically speaking, shoes are an easier, less expensive and fraught acquisition than clothes (few people are embarrassed by their shoe size).
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Larry David is pretty, pretty, pretty embarrassed right now.
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Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.
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When healths were raised during the eighteenth century, it was considered rude or antisocial not to go along with them.
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To resent a rival is par for the course in the villa, but Toni and Shakira’s condemnations registered as truly antisocial.
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Cárdenas talked with episode director Trey Edward Shults about the right way to illustrate the Bowdens’ POV and landed on a number of devices that would alter reality without becoming overly self-conscious.
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And somewhere in South End, a Patagonia vest just got a little self-conscious.
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“Unenterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenterprising. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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