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a person, group, or organization that is despised and rejected- The scandal made her a political pariah.
- The country moved from pariah to partner.
- Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.Mark Twain -- Tom Sawyer
- "You've turned him into a pariah.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- For me, they sat uneasily beside the fact that Rwanda's government had become a pariah in several quarters.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- I had this image that the Ondaatjes were absolute pariahs.Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
- What he didn't expect was to be treated like a pariah.Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
- People treat her like a pariah, so she becomes depressed.Gaby Rodriguez -- The Pregnancy Project
- She was pariah, then, and knew it.Toni Morrison -- Sula
- Everyone knew his affections lay with Carreen, so the news that he was to marry the neighborhood pariah instead sat ill upon them.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- A dog with an experience like that could become a pariah in the truest sense of the word.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- Whatever doubts I've had about him dissipate because if either of us took the other's life now we'd be pariahs when we returned to District 12.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- In 1966, I was a pariah.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- The other kids treated her like a total pariah, crowing that her mother was a "hoor" and calling her "lice girl."Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- He didn't have to worry about feeling alone or like a pariah.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- Within weeks, the non-transparent officeholders were treated like pariahs.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- Maybe he had just remembered he was kissing a girl who five minutes ago had been a social pariah.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- It was people like the chaplain, he concluded, who were responsible for giving religion such a bad name and making pariahs out of them both.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Especially when he's a pariah in the community.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
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