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

"It became the perfect medium to express this feeling of being a misfit," she says.

From BBC ● May 15, 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

“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

Among the hopeful "misfits", as their school-friend Frank Kearns called them, were Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton – who arrived wearing a full-length Afghan coat.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

With so much turnover, the Cowboys are betting on Morris’s leadership to create some coherence among his 91 newcomers—or, as they call themselves, misfits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

Pili held Llewelyn’s paw until they came full circle: a group of misfits ready for anything.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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

Old Hicks fitted, or rather misfitted, him in a faded blue tailed coat and a topper, Jarvis looked like an Otto Gushing cartoon of Apollo in the attire, but he never once thought of that.

From Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke

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

Larkin had just that day secured a misfitting regulation issue uniform from the Supply Officer, Robinson, and the group had been having a great deal of fun at his expense.

From Aces Up by Covington Clarke