Meaning of outcast in English
(Definition of outcast from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
outcast | American Dictionary
a social outcast
Examples of outcast
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It is strange that one should be so minute in the description of an unknown, outcast sailor, whom one may never see again.
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Lots of people wore crosses on their clothing in the thirteenth century and while it proclaimed them penitents it did not make them outcasts.
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Moreover, the outcast colonial generally deserves his ill fortune because he is a reprobate.
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Although 25 heroes held a high status rank or occupation, 5 had a low status occupation, and 16 were social outcasts.
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In the 1970s, those clerics who addressed the "issue of women" were perceived as outcasts.
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Many societies experience problems of public violence and have an abundance of social delinquents and outcasts.
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Cats, for instance, when they are crowded, even show the same tendency to pick on individual outcasts for persecution.
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I wanted to know where citizenship ended and where being an outcast began.
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Actresses' identity as outcasts had been anchored to a particular form of political and social organization.
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But his lack of social graces and his known tyranny over his sister, combined with his family history, make him an outcast.
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The hospices are another matter : until the 1970s, if not beyond, they remained dumping grounds for the country's social outcasts, the uninsured, and the marginalized.
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She was unmarried at that time, and lived as a social outcast in great poverty with her two daughters.
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First, it would have served as a physical sign of the alienation of these people from society: they were outcast from sanctified places of burial.
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Children's defensive expectations of becoming outcasts result in a predisposition to search for (minimal, nonintentional, or ambiguous) rejection cues.
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It was suffered by the socially unfortunate, the outcasts, minor drunks and those who wore shabby clothing.
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