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

Sparta star to Gladbach outcast - who is Cvancara as Celtic confirm deal?

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

She said that I was stingy and mean, an outcast at life’s rich feast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The Yautja are a ruthless culture whose warriors take pride in hunting alone, and Dek’s stubborn adherence to those rules, even as an outcast, is nearly his undoing.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

In Europe, zero was an outcast, but in India and later in the Arab lands, it flourished.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife