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

Despite Mary’s misfit qualities, she exhibits a kindness that even the sweetest of her sisters, Jane, lacks.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

And it was delightful to see him exchange quirky misfit sparks with Salonga during their duet of “Suddenly Seymour,” one of the rare moments when the singers were allowed to join forces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It is illogical to say he is a misfit just because he chooses to ride a different animal, provided he can carry out his cowboy duties.”

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

The one who turned a cast of footballing misfits into an all-conquering force.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

“They are a group of misfits who band together to learn how to control the things that make them different and learn to accept and love themselves,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

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

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

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

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

With the misfitting door and cracked sides it is much like a sieve.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird