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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