misfit
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Despite Mary’s misfit qualities, she exhibits a kindness that even the sweetest of her sisters, Jane, lacks.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Segar’s misfit cast: As ever, Popeye is a muscle-bound mumbler and Olive Oyl an elastic lass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
Anyone who’s ever felt like an oddball or unappreciated genius will identify with the misfit Mitchells and their pet Monchi, who appears to be more goblin than dog.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
I'm as much of a lone wolf or a misfit or a weirdo as anyone.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
They are not misfits exactly — Deering knows what she’s doing as does her team, including the ambitious Det.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Instead, May pursued players who had disappointed at their former schools, betting that the right combination of misfits could turn into a superteam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Mr. Hazzard also profiles the company’s intrepid misfits who would make the daring trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
“You get these two incredibly intelligent misfits who are out of joint with the social world that they’re in,” Fiennes says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
They were artsy misfits who dressed exclusively in concert tees and ragged flannels, and it was those brooding qualities that intrigued me more than the cookie-cutter athlete and cheerleader types.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
Ivar's bandy legs seemed to have grown shorter with years, and they were completely misfitted to his broad, thick body and heavy shoulders.
From O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa Sibert
If he can not persuade him to come to the dispensary and take medicine there is an end to the matter, and he may justly conclude that he is misfitted to his vocation.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)
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 Huneker, James
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
The difficulty wasn’t dissipated by his having taken a high tone about it; it pinched him from morning till night, it hurt him like a misfitting shoe.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry
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