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: rejected or cast out by society
I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.—
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte BrontëHe breaks through the stereotype and humanizes this outcast group of young people.—Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyTom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.—Mark Twain
Mark Twain2
: thrown aside : discarded
a pile of outcast furniture
outcast beliefs
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Noun
She felt like a social outcast.
the professor is something of an outcast in the halls of academe now that his former support of a dictatorial regime has become public
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Taking advantage of the hype, a group of high school outcasts— Dylan (Emjay Anthony), Spud (Kezii Curtis) and Jordy (Chiara Aurelia)—rebrand their metal band to play up a Satan-worshipping theme.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Christian Holub, EW.com, 30 June 2023
Her antagonist is Val Turner (Bathé), the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 May 2022
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Noun
With townspeople convinced that the athlete was sucked up by the waves of satanism spreading across the country, a group of outcasts in a band named Dethkrunch decides to lean into the panic, turning the members into targets themselves.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Taking advantage of the hype, a group of high school outcasts— Dylan (Emjay Anthony), Spud (Kezii Curtis) and Jordy (Chiara Aurelia)—rebrand their metal band to play up a Satan-worshipping theme.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
The title character of Nimona is a redheaded shape-shifter (Chloë Grace Moretz) who befriends outcast knight Sir Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) after the latter is framed for the murder of the queen (Lorraine Toussaint).
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 30 June 2023
Her antagonist is Val Turner (Bathé), the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 May 2022
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“Outcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcast. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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