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outcast

[out-kast, -kahst] / ˈaʊtˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /


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No, I was such an outcast that I didn’t know I was outcast!

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

There was also the possibility of being a social outcast in an era of card-tapping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

"Having been a royal outcast for all these decades, she's learnt not to attach too much weight to things like that."

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

In his 1989 true crime book “Deviant,” Harold Schechter characterizes the young Gein as a social outcast, resentful of almost everyone but his mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

Somehow, now that I had once crossed the threshold of this house, and once was brought face to face with its owners, I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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