misfit

So, aptly, does Gail Honeyman’s creation Eleanor Oliphant, a social misfit with a traumatic past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The 41-year-old royal misfit has long struggled with the monarchy's strictures, shaking off the angry young man and "playboy prince" tags only to find himself at loggerheads with his closest relatives.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

"It became the perfect medium to express this feeling of being a misfit," she says.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

And it’s natural to be upset at an author for poisoning the once-beautiful misfit haven she created.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Yes, they’re expecting me—I hope not just for the purpose of denouncing me as a chemical misfit.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

They called in a crowd from society’s margins: a community “of DJs, dancers, strippers, tattoo artists, of the alternative world, the more gothic world, the misfits themselves,” says Cisternas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Elsewhere, a steep flight of gloomily-lit stairs lead to the basement where Morck and his misfits are based – the abandoned shower quarter of the fictional police station which gives them the name Department Q.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The klan was a handful of misfits who screwed up everything they tried to do.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

Here, “Tony” is in its element as Johnson crafts the intimidating yet irresistible camaraderie of a kitchen, and all of the misfits who work inside it.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

In other words: people who are misfits because they’re just who they are instead of “fits,” who are like everybody else.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

Director Guillermo del Toro called him "one of the patron saints of all misfitted, weird, maladjusted, wonderful, miraculous oddities".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

Richmond’s mayor got busy hiring cranes, history birthed another amalgam, and the statues have wound up pared from six to a misfitted two: Ashe and Robert E. Lee.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2020

The nation may be misfitted with its laws, and need to change them: some particular corn law may hurt all industry, and it may be worth a thousand administrative blunders to get rid of it.

From The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot

Jennie maintained that the misfitted Mr. Lawrence was alive, very much so; that Esther and he weren’t even divorced, but merely separated.

From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

His life, his art, were sadly misfitted with masks—though Nietzsche says: "All that is profound loves the mask"; and the symbolism of the Orient completed the disintegration of his baffling personality.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

Bras have been misfitting for years; suppliers failing to approximate women’s actual shapes.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2018

Suddenly, all the misfitting parts of me came into an orderly pattern, and there wasn’t anything to lose by following it.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2014

When a two-suiter faces a misfitting hand, it is bad news for that side.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2014

Through the body of their Freudian existence, O'Neill has rammed the misfitting dramatic skeleton of the Greek trilogy, Oresteia.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean to alter my face as you do your misfitting garments,—take in on one side and let out on the other.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various