pariah
a person rejected and despised by society
Word origin: From Tamil paraiyar, a low-caste group of drummers in southern India.
Pariah in a sentence
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After the scandal, the once-celebrated banker became a social pariah.
After the fraud came to light, the once-celebrated executive became a pariah in financial circles.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “pariah” well
Pariah denotes total social rejection, someone shunned and despised, not merely unpopular or disliked.
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