Meaning of Pariah | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
2. A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.
   figuratively
3. Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe⟳ in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak⟳ of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a Pariah from genteel society.”

“I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.”

“[…] I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah, since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know⟳.”

“As ecological conditions became unfavorable for pig raising, there was no alternative function which could redeem its existence. The creature became not only useless, but worse than useless—harmful, a curse to touch⟳ or merely to see⟳—a pariah animal.”

“This scenario could lead⟳ to war crimes the scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that would make⟳ Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all global pariahs.”

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