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
That’s Spanish for Saint Death, a scythe-wielding skeleton folk saint popular in Latin America as a guardian of outcasts.
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Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
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
Sharing the same gray pallor to their skin, the pair take comfort in one another as fellow outcasts.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Sam’s science fiction action adventure spotlights life on the margins if also on the fringes of deep space, its two main characters a pair of well-meaning outcasts outrunning the law.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Clearly, people feel like outcasts even if the world doesn’t see them that way.
—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
Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
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
Sharing the same gray pallor to their skin, the pair take comfort in one another as fellow outcasts.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Sam’s science fiction action adventure spotlights life on the margins if also on the fringes of deep space, its two main characters a pair of well-meaning outcasts outrunning the law.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Clearly, people feel like outcasts even if the world doesn’t see them that way.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcasts
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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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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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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Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Other castaways were Survivor 44 star Maddy Pomilla; Survivor 45 stars Brandon Donlon, Brando Meyer, Julie Alley, Jake O’Kane, Kaleb Gebrewold, Kendra McQuarrie and Emily Flippen; Survivor 47 star Teeny Chirichillo; and Survivor 48 star Stephanie Berger.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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“Outcasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcasts. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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