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noun

pariah

a person who is rejected (from society or home)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pariah, each labelled with its topic.

  • After the accounting scandal the firm became a pariah, and no bank would underwrite its bonds for years.

    Finance

  • The guard who quit mid season came back a pariah, greeted by silence in the arena that once chanted his name.

    Basketball

  • Spinoza lived as a pariah after his community expelled him, grinding lenses in a rented room and writing at night.

    Philosophy

  • The novel's heroine lives as a pariah in the village after the scandal, passed on the street without a word.

    Literature

  • The senator became a pariah in his own party after the vote, eating alone in a dining room that once courted him.

    Politics

  • After the fraud came out the founder was a pariah, and no investor in the valley would take his calls.

    Startups

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