What's the difference between friendless and outcast?

Friendless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of friends; forsaken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The death toll was worst in old peoples' homes and (less surprisingly) in stifling cities where the old, friendless and abandoned succumbed to the heat in anonymous apartments.
  • (2) But, to be fair, Sally was jolly, plus she was friendless because of the house move of a previous best friend.
  • (3) What has not been widely recognized apparently is the all too common consequence of the personal jeopardy that the forensic pathologist is placed in--defenseless, friendless, disgraced, and left with a severely tarnished professional reputation.
  • (4) It only ended after multiple appearances before courts and varying lengths of imprisonment when he died, aged 30, homeless and friendless six days after his last release.
  • (5) The prototypical and subdued reaction (seen in 64% of the children) consisted of mild sadness, anxiety, feeling of friendlessness, and social withdrawal.
  • (6) He was friendless and barely able to function: "I'd never used a telephone until 1996."
  • (7) Once in Britain he was homeless and friendless, and at one point was forced to sleep rough in Trafalgar Square.
  • (8) Comparisons were made between alcoholics and nonalcoholics in a sample of Danish adoptees (mean age 30) and it was found that the alcoholics, as children, were more often hyperactive, truant, antisocial, shy, aggressive, disobedient, and friendless.
  • (9) But there are already dozens of large and small organisations addressing the issue in subtly different ways: not just those already mentioned, but also the Friends of Friendless Churches, the Historic Chapels Trust and so on.
  • (10) The proportions of friendless men desiring either friends of casual acquaintances were not related to either age or length of residence.
  • (11) I want his brother to see that, even in here, he isn’t friendless.
  • (12) It has the support of leading economists like Ken Henry, Ross Garnaut and Bernie Fraser whilst Tony Abbott’s phoney alternative is friendless,” the greens leader said.
  • (13) For this to all end happily we need new buyers of the mountain of debt that is step by step becoming friendless in the deleveraging trade.
  • (14) Du Pont struck him as “like Richie Rich [the fictional, friendless millionaire child played by Macaulay Culkin in the eponymous movie] all grown up”.
  • (15) It's July and everything else nasty from the May economic statement appears friendless.
  • (16) But he'll leave eventually, leaving you heartbroken and friendless."
  • (17) Many patients live in an emotionally impoverished state, friendless and rarely leaving the hospital.
  • (18) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian As a young girl, she felt an outsider – brown, Muslim, shy, friendless.
  • (19) Kiberlain, who won acclaim for her portrayal of Simone de Beauvoir and a César – the French equivalent of an Oscar – for her, at times hilarious, interpretation of the workaholic, friendless judge in 9 Mois Ferme , said: "Personally, I feel I've been very lucky.
  • (20) Obesity, anti-social behaviour, friendlessness and fear are the known consequences,” they say.

Outcast


Definition:

  • (a.) Cast out; degraded.
  • (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
  • (n.) A quarrel; a contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (2) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
  • (3) A few floors above Baumanns’ cafe the teenage outcast was studying mass killers and preparing for murder himself, police said.
  • (4) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (5) You become an outcast," said Wada president, John Fahey.
  • (6) M from dominant rats under normal conditions were shown to exhibit higher energy and to possess better respiratory energy regulation than those of "outcast" rats.
  • (7) "They have run out of money, face daily threats to their safety, and are being treated as outcasts for no other crime than losing their men to a vicious war.
  • (8) At Cambridge, Oliver says not entirely jokingly, he felt "outcast and angry"; in his first week there he met Richard Ayoade , later to star in The IT Crowd, and they bonded over "not feeling particularly comfortable about being exposed to the top end of the class system".
  • (9) Community leaders vowed to organise and form a better defence for subsequent nights, helped by members of the Outcast and Dominant Breed motorcycle clubs who lined their bikes up in front of stores.
  • (10) Thousands of children in west Africa have been orphaned by Ebola and are at risk of becoming outcasts from communities frightened of the infectious disease, according to Unicef.
  • (11) The suit alleged that the film portrayed people living in the mountains, who are often of mixed Native American and white heritage and were once known by the derogatory term “Jackson Whites”, as inbred social outcasts.
  • (12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (13) But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.
  • (14) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
  • (15) If you don’t have a job, you are made to feel like an outcast from your community,” Jean-Pierre says.
  • (16) They tell us that the authorities have 86% support, loyalty to Putin is total, [governing party] United Russia enjoys colossal popularity, and the opposition is a bunch of outcasts that can only exist within [downtown Moscow] on Twitter and Facebook and don’t know how to communicate with the people,” Yashin told the Guardian after a campaign stop.
  • (17) Without papers, status or rights, they are outcasts.
  • (18) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (19) They don’t want to be punked out of their own neighbourhood.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greets members of the Outcast motorcycle club before a vigil in Ferguson.
  • (20) His 1964 album Bitter Tears, subtitled Ballads Of The American Indian, included Cash's memorable treatment of Pete LaFarge's Ballad Of Ira Hayes, and was the first of many instances of his willingness to speak up for outcasts and underdogs.

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