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outcast

/out-kast, -kahst/US // ˈaʊtˌkæst, -ˌkɑst //UK // (ˈaʊtˌkɑːst) //

被抛弃的人,弃儿,被抛弃者,被遗弃者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is rejected or cast out, as from home or society: In the beginning the area was settled by outcasts, adventurers, and felons.
    • : a homeless wanderer; vagabond.
    • : rejected matter; refuse.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cast out, as from one's home or society: an outcast son.
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of an outcast: outcast misery.
    • : rejected or discarded: outcast opinions.

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Examples

  • For years, the poor adjective has been relegated to outcast status.

  • Heather Matarazzo’s breakthrough performance at 13 as middle school outcast Dawn Weiner in Todd Solondz’s 1995 counter-culture classic, “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” made her a touchstone for a whole generation of traumatized teenagers.

  • After I left, Avalon recorded a song called “Orphans of God,” which I thought was interesting that they were singing it because I was definitely an outcast to them.

  • Men were forced to abandon their children, relationships and marriages failed, generations were changed and the emotional health of the outcast individual suffered.

  • Although dogged by controversy and legal difficulties, he gained a cult following as an “emo rapper,” capturing the imaginations of the outcast and depressed with a new alternative rap style.

  • It is no wonder that he constantly preached about our welcome of the stranger and our compassion for the outcast.

  • Outcast by his family, fired from his job and on the run, he says his life is in pieces.

  • “When you leave Lampo, you become an ‘outcast’ regardless of the reasons,” another former employee said.

  • This tension between outcast and overlord is at the heart of our sweeping change into a tech-driven, spiritually infused economy.

  • Then Mr. Wilde told Vance he could go; and he went, shambling like an outcast of the slums.

  • There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.

  • The tattered outcast dozes on his bench while the chariot of the wealthy is drawn by.

  • The poem entitled The Outcast expresses this feeling of mysterious remorse and unending and unavailing expiation.

  • One was Enid Vane's sweet childish face, as she thrust her shilling with the hole in it into the little outcast's hand.

  • I humbly returned thanks to God for the privilege of ministering to the wants of this his outcast, despised and persecuted image.