(n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
(n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
(a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a survivor, it's true – but to turn to Cheney for advice about longevity is like interviewing the lone recovered castaway for tips on sea travel: you can ask him for his recipes but don't look too closely at the bones on the bottom of the boat.
(2) He plays Ben Gunn, the castaway who comes to figure in the second half of the two-part drama, which was filmed in Puerto Rico.
(3) The two most popular non-classical records chosen by castaways are the rather self-justificatory "Non, je ne regrette rien" and "My Way".
(4) He was one of my favourite castaways,” Young told the Radio Festival in Salford on Tuesday.
(5) These features are described and then compared with the similar experience of being a castaway after shipwreck.
(6) Jamil said more castaways were expected to emerge from the island.
(7) Unlike when David Cameron was a castaway, there were no indie hits or student favourites from the likes of Radiohead, The Smiths and REM.
(8) Release date tbc The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a tale that's a bit like the BBC's Castaway, albeit more tropical, The Galapagos Affair tells the true story of a small group of Europeans who settled on one of the tiny Pacific islands in the 1930s.
(9) So, home secretary, did you agree to appear as a castaway to show a warmer, personal side?” asks the presenter, Kirsty Young, before many discs have been spun.
(10) And, like many political castaways, Clegg had something in the mix to show a different side to his character.
(11) He said that although reality TV programmes such as Castaway and I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
(12) Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young has revealed she would take a Tom Jones song with her to a desert island because he “pulsated sexuality” and was one of her favourite castaways.
(13) Inspired by Jules Verne, this four-hour epic, which translates as The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (Sunrises), follows a group of people in 1914, escaping war in Europe on a boat.
(14) He picked This Charming Man – a track composed by Marr with the group's lead singer, Morrissey – when he was a castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs four years ago.
(15) We're currently perched at Castaways Bar and Grill .
(16) It’s a short boat ride to Poliegos, a castaway island with magnificent beaches and a population of wild goats and rare birds.” She suggests staying at Milaki , a hotel in the port of Psathi (doubles from €70 B&B).
(17) Theresa May brought to you in conjunction with Toilet Duck.” Another Radio 4 stalwart, Desert Island Discs , had to be re-edited last year after the castaway Michael Bublé picked a Rolex watch as his luxury item without disclosing he was a brand ambassador for the company.
(18) If you love them you have to listen to them very, very carefully,” he said in reference to the passionately held but opposing views among believers during his appearance as guest castaway on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs .
(19) Interviewed on BBC's Radio 4 today by Kirsty Young, after choosing his preferred castaway music, Clegg revealed he "did enjoy the occasional cigarette", although he insisted he never lit up in public and that his children were entirely ignorant of the fact.
Waif
Definition:
(n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
(n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
(n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fringe right parties do tend to collect a number of waifs and strays.
(2) The fiercest denunciation came from the minister without portfolio, Kenneth Clarke, who characterised Ukip candidates as waifs and strays, feeding on prejudice about immigration.
(3) After a hard day at the Vatican, the pontiff likes little better than watching films in which a resolute priest battles the Nazis and a circus strongman takes a waif as his slave.
(4) "The fringe right parties do tend to collect a number of waifs and strays.
(5) The brochure was promoting a scheme where you take waif kids and kids of the pauper class and the slums before they could be corrupted by the poverty and crime of England and send them to Australia for education and opportunity in schools like Fairbridge, where we would become strong and long-limbed by working the farms,” Hill says.
(6) Waif-like figures, mostly young men from Morocco and Algeria, rushed to grab the polystyrene cups.
(7) It was symptomatic of the first half that Stoke’s wonder waif, Bojan Krkic, harassed Cazorla into coughing up possession on halfway in the 25th minute before out-fighting Per Mertesacker to set up a Stoke attack that culminated in a dangerous corner.
(8) Chapter 39 also forgot about women altogether when it spoke of outlawry, for women were not outlawed they were “waived”, which meant left as a “waif”.
(9) Five minutes in and you realise that this is not a permanent home – simply the Swedish base camp of a huge nomadic family with its roots in the 1960s, whose friends and collaborators connect some of the most unlikely names, from Ornette Coleman to Ari Up from the Slits, from Martina Topley-Bird to waifs and strays such as "that strange young man that Cameron met in the street and let live in our house for a while".
(10) Last week even a waif washing car windscreens at traffic lights was executed.
(11) Dramas set in these times tend either to be full of the sort of tubercular waifs whose lives are so mud-spattered they become slapstick, or cheeky orphan chimney sweeps saying things like “Cor it’ll be nippy by St Modwen’s Day and no mistake, guvnor!” next to a lovely shire horse.
(12) The lines were written only a few days before his death: Through these pale cold days What dark faces burn Out of three thousand years, And their wild eyes yearn, While underneath their brows Like waifs their spirits grope For the pools of Hebron again For Lebanon's summer slope.
(13) Ukip has "fruitcakes, loonies, waifs and strays" in its ranks and among its supporters, Kenneth Clarke has said after a spate of stories questioning the credentials of the party's candidates in this week's local elections.
(14) But it is now also a parliamentary waif without a home or useful purpose.
(15) Waifs were everywhere; the odder-looking the better.
(16) This caustic ensemble comedy is about a neurotic actress (Julianne Moore) haunted by her dead mother, a repellent Bieber-esque teen star (terrific up-and-comer Evan Bird) and a deranged waif (Mia Wasikowska) with a dark past.
(17) When I mention that I live near Tony Benn , and often see him taking an hour to buy a pint of milk because he patiently engages with every passing waif and stray who wants his advice on something or other, Farage's eyes light up.
(18) The teenage waif became a symbol of sanctions-busting, of the weasel ways in which western governments eroded the campaign to isolate Pretoria.
(19) Since the supermodels of the 90s – the likes of Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer – retired their bronzed Amazonian limbs, the favoured look has been vacant and waif-like: an ethereal type, easily made bland and identikit for the catwalk after hair and makeup.
(20) Ukip said that Lynam, the face of television sport during the 1980s, sent the party rewritten lyrics to Send in the Clowns , mocking Conservative critics who lambasted Ukip as a bunch of fruitcakes, loonies, waifs and strays .