1A person living on the margins of a society or community; an outsider.
I'm always the fringe dweller, not quite fitting in anywhere
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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.
1.1Australian An Aborigine living in deprived conditions on the outskirts of a town.
these young fringe dwellers inhabit the crumbling remains of an old homestead
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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.