outcast
Example Sentences
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“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” still connects with so many people because it empowers its outcasts and misfits.
From Salon
A team of British scientists, two authors and a group of thought leaders once deemed societal outcasts are here to help.
From Los Angeles Times
‘He’s trying to help us! You can’t treat him like an outcast!’
From Literature
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Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.
From Los Angeles Times
“Call you outcast, low down, you can’t make it, you’re nothing, you’re from nobody, subclass, underclass; when you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.