Outcast \Out"cast`\, a. [Cf. Sw. utkasta to cast out.] Cast out; degraded. ``Outcast, rejected.'' --Longfellow.
Outcast \Out"cast`\, n. 1. One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. --Ps. cxlvii. 2.
2. A quarrel; a contention. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
Lynda established herself as the family outcast as a child, when her father was away at war.
But he still sees himself as an outcast, just a step away from being an outlaw.
Coming to, he remembers being told to deny his way-out and inner realizations or he'll be an outcast.
No one his own age ever went near him," Hudson said. "He was like a social outcast." Here are sketches of the eight Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip expelled to Lebanon on Monday.
California Democrats are waging a bruising primary campaign for governor this year, while Republicans have united behind a moderate, low-profile senator who just a decade ago was a reviled party outcast.
Cuba has been a diplomatic outcast in Washington for years.
Hegedues, 66, was a political outcast for years because of his critical stand toward the regime and the party.
Polidori circles around Byron's clique wearing the sneer of the outcast.
Everybody I saw who was considered an outcast, I didn't see one example where this wasn't true, they were incredibly attractive and successful.
He said that if Brazil was to extend its moratorium to multilateral lenders, it would effectively make the country an outcast in international financial circles.
African National Congress leaders praised South Africa's decision Friday to legalize the guerrilla group but said the government would remain a global outcast until it ends apartheid.
He has aged visibly and put on weight during the years as a political outcast in Cairo.
In addition, a Latin American president told a U.S. diplomat privately that Castro is likely to behave more moderately if he is treated as a member of the club rather than as an outcast.
The only survivor among a group of aliens locked in a railroad boxcar under the broiling desert sun says his survival has made him an outcast in his hometown because people blame him for the deaths.
He was a loner with suicidal tendencies who was an outcast among peers because of illnesses, and was subjected to abuse from his parents, they said.