pariah
pariah [ puh’-RAHY-uh’ ] | |
[ noun ] | |
MEANING : | |
1. a member belonging to a low caste; an untouchable 2. a social outcast | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | |
His philandering ways turned him into a pariah. | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | |
The pariahs of one age—programme-trading, short-selling, junk bonds—are usually reborn in respectable garb in the next. |
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