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

His dislike of this year’s performer, superstar Bad Bunny, makes him an outcast twice-over.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

There was also the possibility of being a social outcast in an era of card-tapping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

"Having been a royal outcast for all these decades, she's learnt not to attach too much weight to things like that."

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

“And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë