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offcast

(ˈɒfˌkɑːst)
n, adj
another word for cast-off
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off•cast

(ˈɔfˌkæst, -ˌkɑst, ˈɒf-)

adj.
1. discarded or rejected; castoff.
n.
2. a castoff person or thing.
[1565–75]
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There are none to care for a girl who is fatherless and motherless, and whose nearest kin are the offcasts of all honest people.
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Since then we've had to put up with a cornucopia of gift-wrapped offcasts and truly awful junk that frankly make you wish your little darlings had never received anything in the first place.
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You have Jack McConnell calling for sectarianism to end in Scotland one day and the next you have Celtic offcasts, sorry Livingston FC, signing Richard Gough as manager.
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