"Pariah" is the East Indian word for the caste of people whose job it was to take care of dead bodies and other equally unpleasant tasks. These people were shunned by everyone else, who were not allowed to even touch them. Hence they are called "untouchables".
By analogy, someone who is shunned and avoided by everyone else because of something totally unacceptable they did or do can be called a "social pariah". In North America, a known child molester would be a good example.
The strange boy was viewed as a social pariah by his entire student body.
Social outsider status can often make one a pariah for all of a groups troubles.
A pariah is a social outcast. Originating from India, the word means "untouchable".
The term pariah refers to a social outcast. This is an Indian term that was used in their caste system for people in the lowest social class. This caste was originally used for ceremonial drummers but later referred to the lowest caste also known as the "Untouchables".
He was considered the pariah of the town.
Pariah - comics - was created in 1985.
He was treated like a pariah because of the illness he had for several weeks.
It is Turkish and it means untouchable. People from England call it Pariah. It is a noun.
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The cast of Pariah the Red Man - 1994 includes: Asif Kapadia
tom sawyer soon came upon the juvenile PARIAH of the village, huckleberry finn.
"Pariah" is the East Indian word for the caste of people whose job it was to take care of dead bodies and other equally unpleasant tasks. These people were shunned by everyone else, who were not allowed to even touch them. Hence they are called "untouchables". By analogy, someone who is shunned and avoided by everyone else because of something totally unacceptable they did or do can be called a "social pariah". In North America, a known child molester would be a good example.