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• n  someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

• Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield.
• In the best of light, Smith was the impolitic outlaw with more grit than tact, the archetypical don't-tread-on-me misfit without whom the fragile experiment at Jamestown would have .
• Described later by his sentencing judge as a "pathetic social misfit," the 28-year-old then reached into his sports bag and, in the manner that others might pull out a sweater .

News & Articles

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• Misfit, The Blind Doberman, Is Our Monday Miracle (PHOTOS)
  Love is blind.Many times this refers to the way we see our objects of affection as perfect, despite the flaws others may notice. For Misfit, however, this happens in a very literal sense.
  June 11, 2013 - The Huffington Post

Quotes

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• Kristin Davis in PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
  My lucky director Priyadarshan, who introduced me in Tamil movies, is giving me a break in Hindi films too. After my good debut in 'Lesa, Lesa', I was reticent about my career because of a nagging feeling I would be a misfit in cinema. Now with a... Trisha Krishnan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisha_Krishnan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF-LrrNJRNOO7heALeXLdNx_vyCYg Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4649134.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGAI00Xl2UZbxsxUr_gTJquhC99bw Jun 13, 2009 64125 85432 misfit Davis, whose parents moved to South Carolina when she was a child, said: I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting."
• Andrew Graham-Dixon in The Economist
  Caravaggio was a violent man living in violent times, but, says the author, he was not "the freak, the misfit, the absolute outsider that he has often been painted to be".