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pariah
/pɚˈaɪə/
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What does pariah mean?
noun
- Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
- (figuratively) A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.
- Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).
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IPA pronunciation
/pɚˈaɪə/
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Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.
There is also a small petted variety of the pariah, usually of a white colour, and with long silky hair.
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As an experiment we shot a miserable mangy Pariah dog, that was prowling about the ground seeking garbage and offal.
Among the free and ownerless pariah dogs of the East disease is almost unknown.
The butcher was a pariah, a sort of unofficial, industrial hangman.