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
“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 • Feb. 17, 2026
His dislike of this year’s performer, superstar Bad Bunny, makes him an outcast twice-over.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 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
Looking back, if I’d known that playing the cello would make me an outcast on my street, I’d have never picked up the instrument.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Vocabulary lists containing outcast
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Out of My Mind
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