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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The most opinionated of these rejects is Smarty Pants, a basic toilet-training tech tool given an amusingly snarky attitude by Conan O’Brien.
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Today, there are hundreds of rejects packed in wood cabinets and cardboard boxes.
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The musical is also narrated by Damian and Janis, the school outcasts who Cady befriends on her first day.
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Sam has teamed up with a pair of sibling vampire hunters known as the Frog Brothers (Miguel Gil and Jennifer Duka), and together these outcasts band together to take on the bad guys.
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Remember, the Lord Jesus did not fear lepers, and leprosy was (and continues to be) a highly contagious infectious disease.
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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.
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Not everyone treated the couple as pariahs, though.
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These factors have turned the Ellisons into Murdoch-like pariahs among many Democrats, and have brought together a somewhat ideologically diverse antitrust coalition, ranging from the more centrist wing of the Democratic Party to the progressive left.
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Gendron said his ancestors were among the first outsiders to settle the island in the 1700s, when three brothers, fur traders all, left Canada and followed the Mississippi south.
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Like members of the Women’s Rights Convention, these outsiders often invoked the Declaration of Independence as a discursive weapon.
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Is an invasion by Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs the next move?
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The estranged daughter of Fidel Castro has never entirely felt at peace here, in a city of exiles, despite being one herself.
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“Offscourings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offscourings. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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