misfit

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

At his public school in Baltimore, Leibowitz wrote in a biographical note, “I covered three grades in two years but I was a misfit and I struggled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

It might have been nice, but I knew it wasn’t going to happen for the misfit in the stands no matter how good I was feeling.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Among the hopeful "misfits", as their school-friend Frank Kearns called them, were Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton – who arrived wearing a full-length Afghan coat.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The klan was a handful of misfits who screwed up everything they tried to do.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

Unlike most of the Slough House misfits, River often drives the action sequences, which means you do a lot of running.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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

Since we didn’t have a mother at home, Junior and I were the misfits in our community.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

If he can not persuade him to come to the dispensary and take medicine there is an end to the matter, and he may justly conclude that he is misfitted to his vocation.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes

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

I assure you, I am worse misfitted than is Master Yardstick yonder in those Falstaffian hose.

From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

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

All that hunger for Life, for Love, for Beauty, for Sympathy, to be blunted once for all in a stale, misfitting, ready-made home?

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott