as in rejects
one who is cast out or rejected by society
the hills are controlled by bandits and other unsavory offscourings who have taken up a life outside the law
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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.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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The Twits don’t have a change of heart and end up as outcasts once more, but the film frames Beesha’s mercy toward them in a positive light.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Remember, the Lord Jesus did not fear lepers, and leprosy was (and continues to be) a highly contagious infectious disease.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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The town serves as the backdrop for what many surrounding the production consider the creative high point of the season — an episode 5 spaghetti western side mission that involves lepers, eye-gauging vultures, and a train pulled by zombies.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Sorceresses, with their bewitching glamours and their constant meddling in affairs of state, are pariahs of a different kind.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Those dynamics in the party — between young and old, insiders and outsiders — will be at play in the race to replace Pelosi that’s already heading up.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Some are invite-only, but others in Vidigal or Rocinha welcome outsiders through local tour companies.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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No World Cup has been less about the self-aggrandizement of the hosts and yet no World Cup has ever been so overtly political as the 1938 tournament, as exiles from Germany and Italy took the opportunity to make very public their opposition to fascism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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This against-the-odds plot had parallels to the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs incursion in Cuba, backed by the CIA and involving roughly 1,400 exiles.—
Kevin G. Hall,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Offscourings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offscourings. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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