Thesaurus / castoff
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- age-old
- antique
- crumbling
- former
- old-fashioned
- old-time
- original
- outmoded
- primitive
- traditional
- venerable
- aboriginal
- antediluvian
- bygone
- past
- relic
- remote
- antiquated
- archaic
- cast-off
- dated
- decayed
- demode
- done
- early
- erstwhile
- hackneyed
- immemorial
- late
- moth-eaten
- of old
- of yore
- olden
- oldfangled
- once
- onetime
- out-of-date
- passé
- primeval
- primordial
- pristine
- quondam
- rusty
- sometime
- stale
- superannuated
- time-worn
- unfashionable
- unoriginal
- worn-out
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People nurtured their starters as if they were particularly needy children, traded recipes for their castoff dough, and photographed the pillowy interiors and artfully slashed crusts like proud parents.
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A player comes on under the shadow, made up in the castoff mail of a court buck, a wellset man with a bass voice.
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The child pointed to what appeared to be some ragged, castoff clothes left in the hole by the late occupant.
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Behold him, beneath the mass of stale and putrid slime, a castoff, friendless and penniless vagabond.
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Doubtless she would hail his wish—half a reform in itself—to castoff the outward signs of an accepted degradation.
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So he picked up some castoff feathers of the Peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes.
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WORDS RELATED TO CASTOFF
- abrogation
- absconding
- apostasy
- avoidance
- backsliding
- betrayal
- castoff
- defecting
- departing
- departure
- derelict
- dereliction
- disaffection
- disavowal
- disavowing
- divorce
- elusion
- escape
- evasion
- falling away
- falseness
- flight
- forsaking
- going back on
- leaving
- perfidy
- recreancy
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- retirement
- retreat
- running out on
- secession
- tergiversation
- treachery
- truancy
- withdrawal
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