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单词 fringe dweller
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Definition of fringe dweller in English:

fringe dweller

noun
  • 1A person living on the margins of a society or community; an outsider.

    I'm always the fringe dweller, not quite fitting in anywhere
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I should have tuned into the radio station after midnight to listen to what the wackos and fringe dwellers were saying.
    • Not only was its organisation a shambles, but it attracted fringe dwellers from the loony Right.
    • He is just another one of those fringe dwellers I tend to run into in my life.
    • Like himself, his heroes are left-leaning fringe dwellers with poetic licence.
    • Maybe it's my compassion for them all that brings us all together as fringe dwellers.
    • At first glance, this extended family of fringe dwellers appears to lead a Utopian existence.
    • The 'dolled up' patronage you see wandering about are only fringe dwellers.
    • I wondered why a book on the noble science should be relegated to the domain of such fringe dwellers.
    • It's a time when epidermal programming is the cutting-edge fetish among the fringe dwellers of the hacker underworld.
    • He's a former staffer of a political fringe dweller and is accused of involvement in arms dealing.
    1. 1.1Australian An Aborigine living in deprived conditions on the outskirts of a town.
      these young fringe dwellers inhabit the crumbling remains of an old homestead
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This would just result in large and desperately poor fringe dweller societies growing up on the edges of urban centres in northern Australia.
      • The unnamed man rises from death and finds himself among a community of fringe dwellers, living in shipping containers rented to them by a gruff night watchman.
      • The fringe dwellers have certainly thrown a hell of a lot of dung their way.
      • They were forced to gravitate into larger urban centres where they lived as impoverished fringe dwellers.
      • You've got a very acute antenna for injustice or suffering or just people who are a bit forgotten—specifically, the fringe dwellers.
      • It was an embarrassing reflection of the realistic contemporary dwelling conditions found in many fringe dweller camps in rural towns around the nation.
      • They are using only a tenth of the petrol that an outer suburban fringe dweller will be using.
      • Like the fringe dweller camps of rural Australian towns with which its appearance has been compared, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a makeshift camp.
      • There is the presumption that the hapless life of a fringe dweller is a viable alternative to a productive place in a society.
      • Commentators who depict the region as an endless flatland of fibro homes and fringe dwellers do so from a position of ignorance.
 
 
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