Pariah
noun
A person who is hated and avoided by other people.
She felt like a pariah after her friends discovered she had lied about her past.
Often appears as...
- social pariah
- feel like a pariah
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Disapproving
noun
A person who is hated and avoided by other people.
She felt like a pariah after her friends discovered she had lied about her past.
Often appears as...
- social pariah
- feel like a pariah
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Social Rejection
Used to describe someone socially excluded for bad behavior or undesirable traits.
After the scandal, the politician became a pariah in his own party.
Pro Tip 2/3Feeling Isolated
Emphasizes the extreme loneliness one feels from being avoided.
Even in a crowded room, the ex-convict felt like a pariah.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Negative
Pariah carries a stronger negative meaning than just being unliked; it implies being shunned.
After cheating in the tournament, he was treated as a pariah by the gaming community.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Rejection
Used to describe someone socially excluded for bad behavior or undesirable traits.
After the scandal, the politician became a pariah in his own party.
Pro Tip 2/3Feeling Isolated
Emphasizes the extreme loneliness one feels from being avoided.
Even in a crowded room, the ex-convict felt like a pariah.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Negative
Pariah carries a stronger negative meaning than just being unliked; it implies being shunned.
After cheating in the tournament, he was treated as a pariah by the gaming community.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Rejection
Used to describe someone socially excluded for bad behavior or undesirable traits.
After the scandal, the politician became a pariah in his own party.
Pro Tip 2/3Feeling Isolated
Emphasizes the extreme loneliness one feels from being avoided.
Even in a crowded room, the ex-convict felt like a pariah.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Negative
Pariah carries a stronger negative meaning than just being unliked; it implies being shunned.
After cheating in the tournament, he was treated as a pariah by the gaming community.
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My Life As an Adventure...
was as crazy as he looked right like he would like hunt squirrels and and he would can stew and he'd bring this through to the crag and by he was the crazy person but he was salt of the earth man he had great stories and you either loved him or hated him right he was either a total pariah or he was like
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What Is a Sin Eater? PIPE...
to the notion that unforgiven sins were haunting the village. This fear is about the souls from the dead coming back to haunt their own society. What the senator was doing was saving society from the negative consequences of sin. So while they were viewed somewhat as a pariah
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Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi...
In my absence, my parents would growl to each other that I was never to set foot in their home again. My four aunties and two uncles who lived down the road would shout and gossip amongst themselves about how I had scandalized the entire bloodline. I was going to be a pariah.
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How we must respond to...
Even one percent of the population getting sick, they will treat, whoever goes for this "ignore the disease" strategy, they will treat them as a pariah state, so none of their people will go in, and none of your people will go into that.
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The climate change...
his quote on billboards all around the Republican convention hall I'm not sure why but we made him a pariah and his party and he's not talking about climate change anymore you liberals think that if we scream loud enough and and long
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War in Ukraine -- and...
coal, oil and most importantly, gas on Russia. That does not make Russia a global pariah because you can't be a global pariah if the soon-to-be most important economy in the world, China, is actually your bestie on the global stage,
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How the mysterious dark...
And the reason is, because although innovation, of course, takes place in big businesses, takes place in world-class universities, it also takes place in the fringes, because those on the fringes -- the pariahs, the outcasts --
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On Sinister Pond PIPE...
at risk but other creatures are being bizarrely transformed the perpetrator is a microscopic flat worm right pariah on da tree dancing its way through three separate hosts like the beats of a dark
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Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
strength and illusion and in short they become demigods and it is because of this phenomenon that these same people once the lights cut are condemned as parasites prostitutes and pariahs
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The human skills we need...
go from staples to rejects overnight, and baffled when a change in social mores turns stars into pariahs and colleagues into ineradicable uncertainty.
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My Life As an Adventure...
was as crazy as he looked right like he would like hunt squirrels and and he would can stew and he'd bring this through to the crag and by he was the crazy person but he was salt of the earth man he had great stories and you either loved him or hated him right he was either a total pariah or he was like
Video examples
What Is a Sin Eater? PIPE...
to the notion that unforgiven sins were haunting the village. This fear is about the souls from the dead coming back to haunt their own society. What the senator was doing was saving society from the negative consequences of sin. So while they were viewed somewhat as a pariah
Video examples
Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi...
In my absence, my parents would growl to each other that I was never to set foot in their home again. My four aunties and two uncles who lived down the road would shout and gossip amongst themselves about how I had scandalized the entire bloodline. I was going to be a pariah.
Video examples
How we must respond to...
Even one percent of the population getting sick, they will treat, whoever goes for this "ignore the disease" strategy, they will treat them as a pariah state, so none of their people will go in, and none of your people will go into that.
Video examples
The climate change...
his quote on billboards all around the Republican convention hall I'm not sure why but we made him a pariah and his party and he's not talking about climate change anymore you liberals think that if we scream loud enough and and long
Video examples
War in Ukraine -- and...
coal, oil and most importantly, gas on Russia. That does not make Russia a global pariah because you can't be a global pariah if the soon-to-be most important economy in the world, China, is actually your bestie on the global stage,
Video examples
How the mysterious dark...
And the reason is, because although innovation, of course, takes place in big businesses, takes place in world-class universities, it also takes place in the fringes, because those on the fringes -- the pariahs, the outcasts --
Video examples
On Sinister Pond PIPE...
at risk but other creatures are being bizarrely transformed the perpetrator is a microscopic flat worm right pariah on da tree dancing its way through three separate hosts like the beats of a dark
Video examples
Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
strength and illusion and in short they become demigods and it is because of this phenomenon that these same people once the lights cut are condemned as parasites prostitutes and pariahs
Video examples
The human skills we need...
go from staples to rejects overnight, and baffled when a change in social mores turns stars into pariahs and colleagues into ineradicable uncertainty.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.
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Sam Seder
When I came home, I was no longer the pariah who had dropped out of law school. I had been on TV. And everybody wanted to know, not only what being on TV was like, but what I thought about world events. Suddenly, there was some value to what I was saying. That's bizarre.
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Joanne Liu
Canadian Scientist
I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn't be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens.
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Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysian Politician
In the eyes of the world, Malaysia has become a pariah state, a state where anyone can be hauled up and questioned by the police, detained, and charged through abusing laws of the country.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
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Ivica Dacic
Serbian Politician
Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
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Charles Murray
American Scientist
I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.
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Colin Powell
American Statesman
Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
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Leila Slimani
French Writer
I am not afraid of being a pariah.
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Bernie Sanders
American Politician
I don't consider myself a pariah.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.
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Sam Seder
When I came home, I was no longer the pariah who had dropped out of law school. I had been on TV. And everybody wanted to know, not only what being on TV was like, but what I thought about world events. Suddenly, there was some value to what I was saying. That's bizarre.
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Joanne Liu
Canadian Scientist
I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn't be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens.
Quote examples
Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysian Politician
In the eyes of the world, Malaysia has become a pariah state, a state where anyone can be hauled up and questioned by the police, detained, and charged through abusing laws of the country.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Quote examples
Ivica Dacic
Serbian Politician
Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
Quote examples
Charles Murray
American Scientist
I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.
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Colin Powell
American Statesman
Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
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Leila Slimani
French Writer
I am not afraid of being a pariah.
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Bernie Sanders
American Politician
I don't consider myself a pariah.
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