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
The feature stars Carrey as the titular green outcast who despises Christmas and Momsen as young Whoville resident Cindy Lou Who.
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Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
The show follows Isabelle de Merteuil (Anamaria Vartolomei), a woman who is disgraced and an outcast after being seduced and discarded by the Vicomte de Valmont (Vincent Lacoste).
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
That’s Spanish for Saint Death, a scythe-wielding skeleton folk saint popular in Latin America as a guardian of outcasts.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
The book and musical follow Delilah McPhee, who is a social outcast following her parents' divorce and a move to a new school.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
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In it, Jackson Lamb (Oldman), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) and the rest of the MI5 rejects are on the case — and a bit on the defense.—
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As the saying goes, nobody wants to sit at the reject table.—
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Together, the deals would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, when Cairo was part of the embargo of Qatar and the former Syrian regime was a pariah.—
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The Islamic Republic has made Iran a pariah and deprived its people — and for what?—
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Daryl hit the road this week on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, befriending a community of lepers before taking a ride on the rails, zombie apocalypse-style.—
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Meanwhile, in a remote leper village, a handsome stranger brings hope with miraculous cures until doubts grow about whether his help may come at a terrible cost.—
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The show, which ran for three seasons from 1964 to 1967, centered around seven castaways who have to survive after getting shipwrecked on an uncharted island.—
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Both she and her ally, Velovic, were named as the final two castaways among the returning 24 stars.—
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The overarching idea, which brands like Adidas have played with to varying degrees of success, is that making everything out of a single material eliminates the need to strip castoff garments of fiddly buttons and zippers, a time-consuming and often expensive process.—
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Quentin was assigned his own Nieuport plane that winter, a castoff from the French flying units.—
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“Outcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcast. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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