(n.) The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
(n.) Something that fits badly, as a garment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(2) "People watched Misfits on their computers then tweeted about the experience, so it did well very quickly.
(3) Cult superhero Meanwhile, Channel 4 has the E4 games portal, and its cross-platform team commissions simple web-based games to accompany shows, like the cult superhero comedy, Misfits.
(4) Filmed in Morocco and Wales, it will feature a young character, Jason, who finds himself in the lost city of Atlantis and is written by Howard Overman, who created E4's Misfits.
(5) These tests are very sensitive, while remaining quite conservative, and discourage the addition of "misfit" sequences to an existing set.
(6) This analysis shows that there is a movement, corresponding to lateral expansion of the rib for an increase in anteroposterior diameter, in which the misfit at the joint is minimized and also that small deviations from this movement involve only very small degrees of misfit at the joint surfaces.
(7) Mario Balotelli is heading back to Liverpool after Milan confirmed they would not keep the misfit striker.
(8) She's not a misfit or a victim, she is intelligent and she doesn't fit into the usual boxes.
(9) Bin Laden was high on that list, but principally as a well-known employer of Islamist misfits.
(10) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(11) To get a fuller appreciation of Jeong's talent head to Community, the NBC sitcom in which he plays Ben Chang, a fortysomething college lecturer eternally trying to win the friendship of the adult misfits under his tutelage.
(12) By combining the results from the headgroup and acyl chains of the phospholipids, it is concluded that the trapped lipids are arranged in a non-bilayer structure, probably caused by a misfitting of the hydrophobic core of the protein and the membrane bilayer.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short Kenneth MacMillan was a working-class boy who went to the top of the elite world of ballet, roughing up its conventional decorum with works featuring tortured psyches, damaged sexualities and a string of outsiders and misfits.
(14) Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Suggested by escapeclause and Mel Gravelrash Luxton The classic rebellious misfit teen, Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) from 80s flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High is, as stated by user escapeclause, “surely a deserving number-one screen stoner”.
(15) In turn, the purified antibodies would be able to reversibly induce a slow transition of the enzyme molecule from an active to a substrate-excluding conformation ("induced misfit").
(16) On Monday, in partnership with JustGiving, we at Social Misfits Media have launched Friends with Money – a free guide to fundraising on social media .
(17) Fair play to Ross if she can find a place within the industry for all those square pegs and clever misfits.
(18) This is most apparent if you watch him in a film from before he was in the accident, such as A Place in the Sun, and then watch one of his later, post-accident movies such as The Misfits.
(19) Today, at least, Ayoade is a little more enthusiastic about the film he's here to promote, Submarine , which he wrote and directed, adapting the story of a teenage misfit and his pyromaniac first girlfriend from a 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne .
(20) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
Pariah
Definition:
(n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
(n.) An outcast; one despised by society.
Example Sentences:
(1) He will sell his country's transition from international pariah to poster boy for democratic change, trade and investment.
(2) The problem is that your typical BNP member is a social pariah who is more into pornography than starting a family," he said.
(3) It was only after a combination of heavy taxation (price), heavy legislation (banning smoking in public places), and heavy propaganda (warnings on packets; an effective, sustained anti-smoking advertising campaign; and most crucially, education in schools) was brought to bear on a resistant tobacco industry that smoking became a pariah activity for a new generation of potential consumers, and real, lasting change took place.
(4) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
(5) "There's so many ways you could do Netflix better using BitTorrent, and the reason they haven't done it is because, in their initial dealings with Hollywood, BitTorrent was the pariah they had to beat.
(6) Sterling became a national pariah over the weekend after the news site TMZ posted a 10-minute recording of what it said was a 9 April conversation he had with his girlfriend, Vanessa Stiviano, 38.
(7) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
(8) All these elements are not present at the moment ..." In nine months, Brown has gone from being popular - the man who saved Britain from financial meltdown - to a pariah.
(9) Critics say this would be akin to apartheid and make Israel a pariah state.
(10) Defour’s status at his former club fell to pariah and caused a graphic banner to be unfurled when he returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne in Anderlecht colours.
(11) In his early years in power Bashir oversaw the transformation of Sudan into a radical Islamic pariah state that provided a refuge for the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden.
(12) "He is now three days into a prison sentence and, probably worse than all of that, he has managed to achieve a notoriety and perhaps pariah status."
(13) Another serious issue is how to institutionalize and hospitalize poor and minority AIDS victims without turning the wards and hospitals into pariah institutions.
(14) The Zionist Union offers a clear alternative to a policy which has not only failed to bring security but is also eroding the foundations of Israeli democracy and turning the country into an international pariah.
(15) The suspicion is that the striker will be greeted in his homeland as a returning hero rather than a pariah whose latest spasm of indiscipline has most likely wrecked Uruguay’s chances at this World Cup .
(16) Barack Obama has warned North Korea that the United States "will not hesitate to use our military might" to defend allies, condemning the actions of "a pariah state that would rather starve its people than feed their hopes and dreams" and characterising the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas as "freedom's frontier".
(17) Syria’s first lady is a pariah figure in the international community and nobody disputes that her husband’s government is responsible for the forced displacement, injury and vulnerability of millions of people within the country.
(18) By then, of course, Rich and his business partner, Pincus 'Pinky' Green, had long since fled to Zug, and were well on their way to making the money back through a series of sanctions-busting oil shipments to South Africa and other 'pariah' states.
(19) Others suggest that, ironically, Koussa may have become tainted in Gaddafi circles by virtue of his success in opening up contacts with western intelligence agencies, with whom he negotiated Libya's transformation from pariah status in the last decade.
(20) Not everybody in the Republican party has entirely forgotten or forgiven the Iraq and Afghan wars that have made Blair and president George W Bush such pariahs on the international stage, but the party’s private retreat is perhaps one of the last major political arenas where an audience is prepared to overlook that uncomfortable chapter.