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View usage for: (pəraɪə) Word forms: plural pariahscountable nounIf you describe someone as a pariah, you mean that other people dislike them so much that they refuse to associate with them. [disapproval] His landlady had treated him like a dangerous criminal, a pariah. Synonyms: outcast, exile, outlaw, undesirable More Synonyms of pariah pariah in British English (pəˈraɪə, ˈpærɪə) noun2. (formerly) a member of a low caste in S India Word origin C17: from Tamil paraiyan drummer, from parai drum; so called because members of the caste were the drummers at festivals pariah in American English (pəˈraɪə; British; also ˈpæriə) noun1. a member of one of the lowest social castes in India 2. any person despised or rejected by others; outcast Word origin Tamil paṛaiyan, drummer < paṛai, a drum: the pariah was a hereditary drumbeater Examples of 'pariah' in a sentencepariah He will not be satisfied until Britain is punished and given pariah status.He's become a social pariah and it couldn't happen to a nicer fella.The income has enabled him to spurn international sanctions and disdain his pariah status.That means he could become a pariah.The move heightened fears the pariah regime is hellbent on building up a doomsday armoury.Any country that practised this sort of apartheid along racial or religious lines would be an international pariah.In time he becomes a pariah.His application lodged, he suffered five years as a social pariah.The longer he does so, the more entrenched his emerging pariah status will become.The country has long been an international pariah, regarded as a threat to western democracy.He says he gave it back because he didn't want to become a pariah.Then accept that the following will all become topics of conversation and you should therefore form a view now or risk becoming a social pariah.Yet choosing to adopt an unfashionable position takes a degree of resilience, and raises the risk that one might become a social pariah.My mother was the reason I was a social pariah.It was an era in which US bankers endured pariah status.I know that attitude gives me pariah status in polite society, but there it is.If you want them to babysit, you have to ask weeks in advance and comparing diaries often makes you feel like a social pariah.You think,'How do we not become a pariah?But power still resides in the grey-haired clerics whose policies have provoked international sanctions and pariah status in the West.It would make me a social pariah and affect my employment prospects, so the impact it's had is huge. Definition a social outcast I was treated like a pariah for the rest of the journey. Synonyms undesirable untouchable unperson Additional synonymsDefinition a person banished or living away from his or her country the release of all political prisoners and the return of exiles Synonyms expatriate, refugee, outcast, émigré, deportee Definition a person who is avoided The article branded her a social leper. Synonyms outcast, reject, untouchable, pariah, lazar (archaic) Definition a criminal who has been deprived of legal protection and rights a band of desperate outlaws Synonyms bandit, criminal, thief, crook (informal), robber, fugitive, outcast, delinquent, felon, or woman">highwayman or woman, desperado, marauder, brigand, lawbreaker, footpad (archaic) - parenthetical
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