as in pariahs
one who is cast out or rejected by society
the professor is something of an outcast in the halls of academe now that his former support of a dictatorial regime has become public
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Recent Examples of outcasts
Clearly, people feel like outcasts even if the world doesn’t see them that way.
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Some of these mistruths portrayed the killers as outcasts and, crucially, victims.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Wednesday leads the outcasts to victory in the game of capture-the-flag, or zephyr, rather, but the sore loser boyscouts try to overtake the camp anyway, triggering Slurp the Zombie, who has eaten the brains of several innocent bystanders by now, which is helping his body regenerate.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
This may have been a form of punishment or sacrifice of the group's social outcasts, but isotropic analysis revealed otherwise.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
Well, Wednesday’s in a coma and all of the Willow Hill outcasts are running amok thanks to Uncle Fester’s power surge breaking the security system.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2025
Long-term Outcast Integration Study — where her father extracted abilities from outcasts and injected them into normal humans.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
With the help of her Uncle Fester, Wednesday locates where the LOIS outcasts are being held and helps free them.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Wednesday and Fester followed a hidden passageway that led them to a block of cells where all the outcasts who were believed to be dead were being held.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Some of these mistruths portrayed the killers as outcasts and, crucially, victims.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Wednesday leads the outcasts to victory in the game of capture-the-flag, or zephyr, rather, but the sore loser boyscouts try to overtake the camp anyway, triggering Slurp the Zombie, who has eaten the brains of several innocent bystanders by now, which is helping his body regenerate.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
This may have been a form of punishment or sacrifice of the group's social outcasts, but isotropic analysis revealed otherwise.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
Well, Wednesday’s in a coma and all of the Willow Hill outcasts are running amok thanks to Uncle Fester’s power surge breaking the security system.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2025
Long-term Outcast Integration Study — where her father extracted abilities from outcasts and injected them into normal humans.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
With the help of her Uncle Fester, Wednesday locates where the LOIS outcasts are being held and helps free them.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Wednesday and Fester followed a hidden passageway that led them to a block of cells where all the outcasts who were believed to be dead were being held.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcasts
Noun
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Advertisement The presence of India’s prime minister provided some democratic gloss to this parade of pariahs.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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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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Fantastic Four is a close second, sure, but Florence Pugh leading a group of depressed villain castaways was the film that really felt like more of a return to form for the MCU.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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Not only are the new crop of castaways competing for $1 million prize, but two of the contestants will also return for next year's all-star 50th season.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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The overarching storyline for Battletech is the struggle between the noble houses born from the Succession Wars and the returning exiles of the Clans.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Several other exiles in London — oligarchs and defectors — who died under mysterious circumstances in the early 2000s.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Outcasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcasts. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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