offcast

[ awf-kast, -kahst, of- ]

adjective

1. discarded or rejected; castoff:

   his offcast suits.

noun

1. a castoff person or thing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of offcast¹

First recorded in 1565–75; adj., noun use of verb phrase cast off

Example Sentences

Two other supporting performances, both offcast, are emblematic of the care with which Whose Life has been made.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every unincumbered piece of our property, the orts, dregs, and offcast of our operations, were made the subjects of transfers to the rag-tag and bobtail of Lattimore288 society.

From Project Gutenberg

Which will you be, an honorable wife, or a despised offcast?

From Project Gutenberg

Waned is my war-band, wasted my hall-troop; Weird hath offcast them to the clutches of Grendel.

From Project Gutenberg

He greeted Mr. Fear hospitably, having been so lately an offcast of the streets himself that his adoption had taught him to lose only his old tremors, not his hopefulness.

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