as in reject
one who is cast out or rejected by society
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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Recent Examples of outcast
Gary Oldman leads a tremendous cast in this series about MI5 outcasts confined to Slough House.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Things get more interesting when a trio of outcast teens pretend to be Satanists to get people interested in their rock band.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Nevertheless, the message of Christmas is that Christ does not despise our outcast state.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Things get more interesting when a trio of outcast teens pretend to be Satanists to get people interested in their rock band.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Nevertheless, the message of Christmas is that Christ does not despise our outcast state.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcast
Noun
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Led by the foul-mouthed and fouler-smelling Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the team of rejects consists of River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar) and Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) among others including newcomer, J.K. Coe (Thomas Brooke).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
15 Oct. 2024
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The true stab here isn’t just that Donald lied to Roy on his deathbed, or that Donald would so callously reject the friend who turned him from an outer-borough reject into a mover and shaker within Manhattan.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
Noun
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Russia has been committing crimes against humanity and has become an international pariah.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2023
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Syria itself is an international pariah under Western sanctions linked to the war.—
Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 Feb. 2023
Noun
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Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.—
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3 Oct. 2024
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But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.—
Lee Chang-dong,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2024
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“Outcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcast. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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