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black sheep

1. A sheep with black fleece.

2. A member of a family or other group who is considered undesirable or disreputable.

black sheep

a person who is regarded as a disgrace or failure by his family or peer group

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Noun	1.	black sheep - a reckless and unprincipled reprobate scapegrace miscreant, reprobate - a person without moral scruples
	2.	black sheep - sheep with a black coat sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

black sheep

noun disgrace, rebel, maverick, outcast, renegade, dropout, prodigal, individualist, nonconformist, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, wastrel, bad egg (old-fashioned informal), wrong 'un (informal) the black sheep of the family

Translations

black sheep n (fig) → pecora nera

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