outcasts
Example Sentences
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The players he signed to free-agent contracts or traded for were underdogs, outcasts and second-fiddles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
He ate with tax collectors, sinners and outcasts.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
It makes more sense that the feeling of family promised by rock touring life would appeal to Charlie Brown; it often calls to creative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious need to belong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Justice Brett Kavanaugh has called same-sex marriage a “very important right” and declared that gay Americans “cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2025
Gangsta rap—while it may amount to little more than a minstrel show when it appears on MTV today—has its roots in the struggle for a positive identity among outcasts.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
