Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The person singled out, as by tossing a coin or in some similar way, from among a number to perform some special act or service; also, the mode of selection itself.
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Examples
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A rich man's son whose following included bandits and killers, a teetotaler and spiritualist in a society dominated by hard-drinking machismo and mawkish veneration of saints, images, he was such an odd-man-out that the terrible fate that overtook him seems almost inevitable.
Glorious innocent: the tragedy and triumph of Francisco Madero (1873–1913) 2008
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A rich man's son whose following included bandits and killers, a teetotaler and spiritualist in a society dominated by hard-drinking machismo and mawkish veneration of saints, images, he was such an odd-man-out that the terrible fate that overtook him seems almost inevitable.
Glorious innocent: the tragedy and triumph of Francisco Madero (1873–1913) 2008
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A rich man's son whose following included bandits and killers, a teetotaler and spiritualist in a society dominated by hard-drinking machismo and mawkish veneration of saints, images, he was such an odd-man-out that the terrible fate that overtook him seems almost inevitable.
Glorious innocent: the tragedy and triumph of Francisco Madero (1873–1913) 2008
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In other words, until the SPD's national leadership and their supporters can work out their differences, the SPD is likely to be the odd-man-out when national election day arrives.
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For the most part though, I think I prefer being the odd-man-out in the liberal group with the Bush bashing introductions than being a little odd in a conservative group deciding how and how many volts the border fence will be.
Religion as a Basis for Trust, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It doesn't matter which observer is the odd-man-out or in which order the observations are made.
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I too found the Sibelius really depressing and the odd-man-out in this program.
Gloomy Sibelius, Sunny Bates, and Demonic Prokofiev sfmike 2009
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The only odd-man-out of the group is Kevin Nealon, who plays family friend Doug Wilson.
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A little while later, odd-man-out Joe Lieberman got a big applause line by asking "what's a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this" and then answering that it's to support McCain because McCain put country over party.
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• The Final Four – also known as the ACC Tournament — opens Sunday with ACC champion North Carolina squaring off against conference tournament runner-up Maryland at 7 p.m. and ACC regular-season runner-up Duke facing odd-man-out LSU, the Southeastern Conference's regular-season champion, at approximately 9: 30.
USATODAY.com - Frese, Terps overcome more than just pesky Utes 2006
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