[
UK
/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
]
[ US /ˈaʊtˌkæst/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊtˌkæst/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is rejected (from society or home)
ADJECTIVE
- excluded from a society
How To Use outcast In A Sentence
- He says to the ‘Outcasts of America… We make theater, we make community ’, thus finding a way to ‘entertain and educate the solitaries that make up a community’.
- I get to do that now with my two children; before they came along, I sought to do that with the people who came to my church, who read my books, who listened to my music, who lent their precious and rare attention to what I had to say, even at a time when I was being called an outcast. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
- He went on: ‘Although drink driving has now become unsociable, it's about time that we accept that people driving in a sleepified state should also be social outcasts.’
- These institutions were "industrial schools" "reformatories" and "orphanages"; in other words, the children were considered outcasts and, therefore, expendable. No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History
- Will my spirit fly upward to a happy heaven? or shall I sink into the bottomless pit, an outcast from a God of infinite love? American Indian Stories
- Her name labeled her: Zola, meaning outcast, forever preceded her birth name, Luz. Distant Shores
- Madame Olenska has had an unhappy life: that doesn't make her an outcast.
- Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
- But whatever the Vatican decides to do, will you stand with those already outcast from the presbyterate?
- Tibetans treat the blind as outcasts because they believe they are possessed by demons or have committed evil in a prior life.