OUTCAST


Meaning of OUTCAST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

social

Lepers might be social outcasts , but they were not federal criminals or otherwise without the protection of states' rights.

But there were enough to constitute an underground community, a clandestine network of social outcasts and émigrés.

They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century.

This may lead to the feeling of being a social outcast , depression and hopelessness.

Smokers today are quite often made to feel like social outcasts by the moral majority.

On the few occasions she'd spent holidays at home she'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

After her divorce she was treated as an outcast by her family.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He completely disregarded strictly enforced social conventions and religious restrictions in order to contact the outcasts of society.

In base camp, we were the animals and the outcasts.

Lepers might be social outcasts, but they were not federal criminals or otherwise without the protection of states' rights.

Like Berry, his success with guitar-based music made him an outcast on Black Main Street.

The traditional outcast or pariah becomes the hero in this new age.

Warriors of Chaos, human outcasts from the wars, flocked to join the Beastmen and other creatures of Chaos.

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