unclubbable

comparative more unclubbable · superlative most unclubbable

1. Not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable.First known use 18th c.

   ‘But Sir John was a most unclubable man!’

   1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95

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   It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town.

   1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, page 212

   I have to conclude that I am unclubbable. Unlike John O'Hara, who kept embossed seals of his various clubs on his gold cigarette case, I apparently take no continuing pleasure in clubs nor any real satisfaction in the thought that I have been asked to join a few of them.

   2003, Joseph Epstein, Snobbery: The American Version, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 141

   For much of the nineteenth century, conventional wisdom deemed women intractably unclubbable. The standard arguments in circulation at the time often began by pointing to women's “natural” inclination not to be social.

   2012, Barbara Black, A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland, Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 219

   Synonyms: unsociable, reclusive, antisocial · Antonyms: clubbable, sociable