misfit
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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 became the perfect medium to express this feeling of being a misfit," she says.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In the angsty romance, he played the popular working-class boy in a secret relationship with a wealthy social misfit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
“And what’s wrong with the doll, anyway? Why is it a misfit? It seems to adhere to the standards of a typical doll.”
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Elsewhere, a steep flight of gloomily-lit stairs lead to the basement where Morck and his misfits are based – the abandoned shower quarter of the fictional police station which gives them the name Department Q.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
“We’re just a bunch of grinders—a bunch of misfits that are going after it and want to prove the world wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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
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
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
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
I have always found them excellent bodkins, button-hooks, wedges for misfitting windows, &c., but until to-day had never realized what a capital comb they would make, held tightly.
From A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba by M. G. C. (Mary Georgina Caroline) Hall
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