Isabella Bird

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.

Joanne Liu

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.

Canadian Scientist

Mahathir Mohamad

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.

Malaysian Politician

Noam Chomsky

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

American Activist

Ivica Dacic

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Serbian Politician

Charles Murray

I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.

American Scientist

Colin Powell

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

American Statesman

Leila Slimani

French Writer

Bernie Sanders

American Politician

Used to describe someone socially excluded for bad behavior or undesirable traits.

Social Rejection

Emphasizes the extreme loneliness one feels from being avoided.

Feeling Isolated

Pariah carries a stronger negative meaning than just being unliked; it implies being shunned.

Strong Negative

 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

My Life As an Adventure...

 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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 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.

Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi...

 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.

How we must respond to...

 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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 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,

War in Ukraine -- and...

 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 --

How the mysterious dark...

 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

On Sinister Pond PIPE...

 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

Emily Ainsworth: Inside...

 go from staples to rejects overnight, and baffled when a change in social mores turns stars into pariahs and colleagues into ineradicable uncertainty.

Pariah

Social Rejection

Feeling Isolated

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