Word: outcaste
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...fundamental distinction of all: the eccentric is strange because he cares too little about society, the weirdo because he cares too much. The eccentric generally wants nothing more than his own attic-like space in which he can live by his own peculiar lights. The weirdo, however, resents his outcast status and constantly seeks to get back into society, or at least get back at it. His is the rage not of the bachelor but the divorce...
...they have nothing. Laurel announced last week that because he opposed many of Aquino's policies, he could not remain in his Cabinet post as Foreign Secretary, though he would retain the vice presidency. He complained bitterly + of having been treated as an outcast in her government. Using the Tagalog word for the mosquito netting draped over conjugal beds, Laurel said that Aquino had kept him "outside the kulambo...
...Noah took his own family on a trip, Jackson's biographer Barbara Reynolds has reported, Jesse grieved to go with him. In the neighborhood the young Jackson was taunted by other boys about having no father. At the Baptist church, moralistic parishioners made his mother feel like an outcast...
...object to the term pariah in your story on the Pope's meeting with Kurt Waldheim. According to the dictionary, a pariah is an outcast. To use this word to describe President Waldheim, Austria's head of state, was offensive...
...drunk in his underwear in a lewd and lascivious manner. After deliberating for half an hour, then returning for an encore of "Love Potion 9," Justice's group delivered its decision. "We sentenced him to be exiled for all time from his place of birth, to wander forever an outcast in the trackless wastes of foreign lands." Justice remembers. "We never thought he'd take us seriously...