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/kˈæstəwˌeɪ/ Listen

noun

Castaway n.

One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. "Lest... when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."

adjective

Castaway adj. Of no value; rejected; useless.

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"Castaway" Quotes from Famous Books

... the window the picture of my big wreckin'-tug, the best-geared afloat and cost the most—a sailor's fortune just in her—yes—and I'd named it for Her. And 'twas to that same office I used often to come straight from my rough seawork. She used to come there to take me to drive. Me, who'd been a castaway sailor-boy—but I could afford all these things then. I could afford anything She wanted. And She wanted the fine office, and so it was fitted up with fine desks and clerks, though it wasn't what the clerks put in their account-books ...

— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly

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... blood, since her father and grandfather, who was our adopted son, and the husband of our only child, fell in the Zulu war fighting with the English against Cetywayo. Now many have heard the strange story of Ralph Kenzie, the English castaway, and of how he was found by our daughter Suzanne. Many have heard also the still stranger story of how this child of ours, Suzanne, in her need, was sheltered by savages, and for more than two years lived with Sihamba, ...

— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard

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... more; they no longer doubted that the Indians were Comanches—a moccasin had been picked up, a castaway—and the leathern tassel attached to the heel declared the tribe to which its wearer belonged ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

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... manner in which she gave her message, and the dreadful boldness of her look. I thanked this young castaway; and I said, in a tone of Christian interest, "Will you favour me by ...

— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins

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... leads us (once luncheon dispatched; you should taste Vesey Street's lentil soup) to the second-hand bookshops. Our imagined castaway, condemned to live on Vesey Street for a term of months, would never need to languish for mental stimulation. Were he devout, there is always St. Paul's, as we have said; and were he atheist, what a collection of Bob Ingersoll's essays greets the faring eye! There ...

— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley

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