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The phrase "alienated boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a boy who feels isolated or estranged from others, often in a social or emotional context.
Example: "The alienated boy sat alone in the cafeteria, watching his classmates laugh and play together."
Alternatives: "isolated boy" or "lonely boy".
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Is it possible that Gregor was simply an overimaginative teenager, an alienated boy who projected his feelings into the tragic story of a war orphan?
The magazine has begun to include sexually explicit content and runs "Monroe," a strip about a dysfunctional family in which the father is a drunk, the mother a floozy and the son a dejected and alienated boy.
Their most enduring work, the singles Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane, tell on one side of the dream memory of a Liverpool garden where a lonely alienated boy could find solace, and on the other of a Liverpool street where a bright, sociable boy could see the world.
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It seems a small movie at first: the famed Bernardo Bertolucci's new film Me and You about a pimply alienated 14-year-old boy, who lives alone with his single mom.
Having just directed Brando for the third time in On the Waterfront, Kazan was looking for a younger Brando and found one for this role of a lost, alienated, early 20th-century California boy in this film of John Steinbeck's allegorical novel.
The parochialism that governed the Colombia I knew meant that as a closeted gay boy, I felt alienated from the patriotism uncritically championed by so many of my peers.
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