outcast
Example Sentences
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Feeling angrily outcast from her community, Mary tried to rise from her station by assuming a variety of disguises.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
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
"Here is this wonderful animal who is a little outcast from how the rest of his species is, but who is beloved and treasured and has value," she added.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
She said that I was stingy and mean, an outcast at life’s rich feast.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Living with his divorced mom and two sisters in one Montana town or another, sometimes in dire poverty, Jesse always felt like an outcast.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Vocabulary lists containing outcast
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Out of My Mind
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