outcast

Example Sentences

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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 • Mar. 2, 2026

Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 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

He was being used as an emergency striker with Isak an outcast, so how can Howe contemplate a sale when resources are now so threadbare?

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

Now an outcast and a marked man, I seldom travelled alone at night.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane