Outsider
[aʊt'saɪdə] or ['aʊt'saɪdɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win.
Checked by Curtis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
(n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.
(n.) A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.
Inputed by Bartholomew
Examples
- Ursula WAS such an insufferable outsider, rushing in where angels would fear to tread. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was, apparently, no suspicion that its future was at the mercy of the despised outsider. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am the only outsider who knows it--and my professional existence depends on holding my tongue. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Now, not one of these miscellaneous things was in existence; not an outsider was sufficiently informed about such devices to make them on order, except perhaps the special wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It might or might not tolerate the outsider and the slave, but they had no legal voice in their treatment--any more than if it had been a despotism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ursula felt that she was an outsider. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The others were all outsiders, instinctively, whatever they might be socially. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald was one of the outsiders. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A field of outsiders are always going in to bowl at the Public Service, and we block the balls. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Baffled boots from the vexed souls of disappointed outsiders. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In a revolution you could not admit to outsiders who helped you nor that any one knew more than he was supposed to know. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We are too partial, but the praise and blame of outsiders will prove useful, even if she gets but little money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- These outsiders were barbarians, not to be needlessly thought about; they were barred out now from Greece for ever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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