Wiktionary
n. 1 (&lit white sheep English) 2 (context idiomatic English) a conformist; an unusual or conventional person 3 (context idiomatic English) a disliked person; one who is disfavored
WordNet
n. large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska [syn: Dall sheep, Dall's sheep, Ovis montana dalli]
Usage examples of "white sheep".
The grassy expanse of the park was vacant except for a small flock of white sheep and a herder.
He nodded to a vast bleating mat of gray-and-white sheep churning up the chalky flint-studded dirt of the street.
Mother was weaving undyed wool from a white sheep and wool from a black sheep, twisted together.
But the picture Sioned created was suddenly given back to her in changed form: instead of long-legged mares and stallions, Elisel rather wistfully pictured plump white sheep.
On the right side of the road grazed a scattered flock of gray-white sheep, but there was no sign of a shepherd.
There were hundreds of once-white sheep, their wool now stained with madness and the blood of those who had proved themselves a nuisance.
Nor ought we to think that the occasional destruction of an animal of any particular colour would produce little effect: we should remember how essential it is in a flock of white sheep to destroy every lamb with the faintest trace of black.
Thing that makes me laugh is that there's hundreds of people all over the world looking at Squire Hawkin's postcard of Scardale and thinking Derbyshire village life is milk-white sheep in a field full of sunshine.