pariah
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9.0
- noun
- /pəˈraɪə/
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paria
- After being caught cheating, he became a pariah among his friends.
- an international pariah
- pariah status
- pariah state
And I became this pariah in the county.
- And I became this pariah in the county.
- It trashed the trials and I was the pariah of the scientific world.
- He didn't really make a pariah out of MBS like he said he was going to, right?
- However, for those few people who would like to reverse gender reassignment surgery, they are pariahs.
- And overnight, Joshua went from the most popular professor at Princeton to a pariah.
- It was all celebrated, I mean, at The Sun, which now treats Russell Brand as if he's a pariah.
- I wasn't the class clown, you know, I was just this pariah, this weird little man who look like a little girl.
- They get into crime, they, they, they become a social pariahs.
- But making sure that they're no longer a pariah also, you know, but that's your job as the leader to do that.
Examples
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Appears like you and me are social pariahs.
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Now I am an outcast, a pariah.
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And I became this pariah in the county.
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Do you know what a pariah is?
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Well, she was like a pariah in the neighborhood.
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And now look at me, the family pariah.
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After six years of being a pariah, l'm gonna get back in!
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The most recent member of the nuclear club is North Korea, a small pariah state with a massive insecurity complex.
Academic text (2010) -
Sudan and Zimbabwe, two countries treated as pariahs by the United States, are particularly beholden to China.
Academic text (2009) -
It is enough for the label to be attached for the attachee to be designated a pariah, an outcast from normal society.
Synonyms
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8.4
A person who others avoid and treat as an outsider
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4.8
A person who others dislike in a family or group
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7.2
A person left alone on a deserted island after a shipwreck or abandoned by other people
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5.1
Not accepted by a group or community
A person who is excluded from a caste or social group and treated as outside society
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Etymology
Pariah comes from the Tamil word paraiyar, which at first meant 'drummer' and named a low social group in southern India. Because members of that group were often rejected by others, pariah came to mean an 'outcast', someone pushed out of society.