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black sheep

noun as in disgraceful person

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From its humble beginnings at downtown dive bar La Cita, Gothicumbia has drawn black sheep from all over the city — and has since traveled from Riverside to San Francisco.

Lowell, spurned in his romantic life and treated as a black sheep by his dynastic family, found in Mars a calling, a raison d’être.

Elphaba is the black sheep of her family, having been born with green skin unlike her parents.

From Salon

That audience anticipation could convince other studios to reconsider musicals, “and not treat them as the black sheep of genres,” said Robbins of Fandango.

Since Kennedy dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump, the GOP candidate has fully embraced the black sheep of the famously Democratic clan.

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