misfit

Employed but adrift, he seeks out Franca, a former girlfriend and fellow misfit in their school days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 15, 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

I had little idea what it really involved, but at least it had to be better than the made-up misfit sports we had to play in elementary school.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

“Everyone came from somewhere else or were misfits and I was bringing in these interesting characters, which is very similar to what I’m doing in these films,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

A team of misfits at Ford is on a quest to beat China at EVs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

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 Willa Sibert Cather

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

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