A person who is rejected (from society or home)

Usage examples of pariah.

By then, Woyty had become an antinomian pariah, producing the barest minimum research to survive.

They slept wherever they were admitted, usually among the poor and the pariahs in the skid rows and tenderloins and cribs of Europe, America and Asia.

I want the Nervi organization broken up, destroyed, made a pariah in the business world.

The name he gave to his persona was borrowed from the Cagots, an ancient pariah race of untouchables who had practiced a variant of Christianity which brought down upon them the rancor and hatred of their Basque neighbors.

I was cast out, expelled from The Guild of Candlemakers, a social pariah.

Pariah dogs foraged in piles of garbage, hardbitten whores spat from the windows, and according to the corporal, it was not unusual to stumble across a corpse, probably a victim of the gangs of abandoned children who lived in the fringes of the jungle.

Cassie thought she could stand being blackballed, being a pariah at school again.

From the friendly way she spoke, the colorist no doubt had failed to recognize Acorna as the pariah of the planet.

Scarfsellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossingsweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, constables in red and blue uniforms, and butchers' boys driving their quickfooted ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.

Scarf‑sellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossing‑sweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, consta­bles in red and blue uniforms, and butchers' boys driving their quick­footed ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.

The mother of such a child was usually a pariah, cast out for fear she would draw the evil animal spirit again and cause other women to give birth to such abominations.

In the central square, dominated by a plaster fountain decorated with faces from which all feature had eroded, a pariah dog with a pelt the color of blanched almonds was poking about for bugs in a patch of sere grass.

Hendrick glimpsed their dark shapes as the Ford bumped and pitched over the rough track between the shanties and shacks and the headlights swung aimlessly back and forth illuminating little cameo scenes: a group of black children stoning a pariah dog.

Varshakara spat a wad of crimson betel juice at a pariah dog, staining the creature’.

I felt a pang of shame when I saw how neglected it was, the graves untended, the weedy ground showing the tracks of goat and donkey, jackal and pariah dog.