misfit

Despite Mary’s misfit qualities, she exhibits a kindness that even the sweetest of her sisters, Jane, lacks.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

In these final days on the campaign trail, Massie's events have seemed a bit like a collection of misfit toys.

From BBC ● May 18, 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

After a more than three-year absence, it’s the beginning of the end for Netflix’s hit series, which has endeared gaggle of misfit kids to us and become a cultural touchstone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

“It doesn’t bother you at all that she called us misfit toys?”

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

“They are a group of misfits who band together to learn how to control the things that make them different and learn to accept and love themselves,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The topical, darkly funny, whip-smart series from Eric Kripke follows a band of vigilante misfits who fight to expose the all-powerful, corrupt conglomerate Vought International and its stable of villainous superheroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

They sought out the misfits and malcontents within Ford—the type of people, Clarke said, chafing under Ford’s often-rigid structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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

His life, his art, were sadly misfitted with masks—though Nietzsche says: "All that is profound loves the mask"; and the symbolism of the Orient completed the disintegration of his baffling personality.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

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

Old Hicks fitted, or rather misfitted, him in a faded blue tailed coat and a topper, Jarvis looked like an Otto Gushing cartoon of Apollo in the attire, but he never once thought of that.

From Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke

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

Next day I met him riding a young brown horse, with a wildish eye, and a nasty rub from a misfitting collar.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross