misfit

At his public school in Baltimore, Leibowitz wrote in a biographical note, “I covered three grades in two years but I was a misfit and I struggled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

In these final days on the campaign trail, Massie's events have seemed a bit like a collection of misfit toys.

From BBC ● May 18, 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

There is just enough character in the comedy to create stakes in the narrative; its misfit energy has fueled the screen’s bands of outsiders throughout the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

The Bacon family didn't mind the misfit food, but soon they found out I was the greater misfit.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

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

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

Unlike most of the Slough House misfits, River often drives the action sequences, which means you do a lot of running.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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

The topical, darkly funny, whip-smart series from Eric Kripke follows a band of vigilante misfits who fight to expose the all-powerful, corrupt conglomerate Vought International and its stable of villainous superheroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

And I, for once, felt completely normal among this group of misfits.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

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

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

Virginia is at once the most thorough and the most pathetic picture extant of the American woman as Victorianism conceived and shaped and misfitted her.

From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Carl Van Doren

I assure you, I am worse misfitted than is Master Yardstick yonder in those Falstaffian hose.

From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

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

Garbed in the weirdly misfitting clothes of a waiter, holding aloft a loaded tray of dishes, he entered on roller skates, to halt before Baird with his uplifted tray at a precarious balance.

From Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson