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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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