misfit

In the series, glee club New Directions helped misfit students find their voices through song and dance.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

So, aptly, does Gail Honeyman’s creation Eleanor Oliphant, a social misfit with a traumatic past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It wasn’t exactly the island of misfit toys, but general manager Will Kuntz had managed to pull together four talented players from three continents who had nothing to lose and everything to prove.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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 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

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

“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

I figured it was because I knew he would have a good comeback, or maybe it was because he wasn’t a regular in the cast of misfits who hung out at Fang’s.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

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

To dream of misfitting apparel, intimates crosses in your affections, and that you are likely to make a mistake in some enterprise.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller