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Disgraceful family member
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black sheep
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Black Sheep is a 1996 comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris , written by Fred Wolf and starring Chris Farley and David Spade . The film portrays a political contest in which a candidate for Governor of Washington deals with unwanted, incompetent, and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1822 in figurative sense of "member of some group guilty of offensive conduct and unlike the other members," supposedly because a real black sheep had wool that could not be dyed and was thus worth less. But one black sheep in a flock was considered ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Are twins to become the moral equivalent of black sheep ? ▪ Even in this questionable industry, meanwhile, the Connecticut leasing operation is clearly the black sheep . ▪ Faith is treated as the odd man out, the misfit, the ...
Usage examples of black sheep.
I vaguely knew that he was the black sheep younger son of a titled Irish family, and that he had walked many strange ways.
I said nothing against the buccaneer, whom I knew to be the disinherited black sheep of a powerful Irish family, but I experienced a strange sensation of pleasure to learn from her lips just what their relationship was to each other.
I do not wish to offend you, but I fancy he is more the black sheep of your family than you are!
He was a trick rider in the Wild West Show, and was considered a black sheep by the stuffier members of the clan in his day.