Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India

Usage examples of untouchable.

But Schizzy and the other women employees kept themselves untouchable, even those few girls who, unlike Schizzy, did not walk about befogged in an aura of preoccupied frigidity.

And though now nailed amidst all the rustiness of iron bolts and the verdigris of copper spikes, yet, untouchable and immaculate to any foulness, it still preserved its Quito glow.

She compared favorably with her grandaunt, yet because Larissa was untouchable, there remained an aura of mystery around her that held her apart from me.

These people here, the hebephrenics, would be equivalent to the untouchables.

Elenn stayed calm and silent, hardly moving, keeping her face tranquil, making herself untouchable inside herself even if Maga should turn on her.

They continue working with baboons, maybe even round up some untouchables in Calcutta or somewhere and do it to them so they can learn how to do it on humans.

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.

Harrison Cooper had spent the better part of his third decade wiring circuities of impossible pasts and as yet untouchable futures.

He imagined the district never visited, empty of human transaction, and how buildings such as these would seem to hold untouchable matter, enormous codifications of organic decay.

Excitingly near and real, she was yet somehow wrapped in that untouchable aloofness that I could not understand.

It was wrong that my rapist assumed he was untouchable or that as a Syracuse coed I was most certainly treated better by the police.

Their Kapitans conferred, conning tower to conning tower, with the casualness of men who knew that a hundred metres of water made them untouchable.

He berated himself for being so naive, as unseeingly obtuse as any dragonrider for assuming that the Weyrs were inviolable and a Hatching Ground untouchable.

I mean, you know, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the CCNY Alumni Association, the Untouchables of Avenue B, Alcoholics Anonymous, the NAACP, the Anti-Vivisection League, the Washington Heights Democratic Club, the B'nai B'rith, the West 49th Street Pimps and Prostitutes Mutual Legal Fund, the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, the Save-the-Village Committee, the Police Holy Name Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, the Our Lady of Pompeii Championship Basketball Team.

Inspecting industrial atomic piles for the Defense Authority, he had seen awesome demonstrations in which a tiny sample of sodium or aluminum or platinum was cautiously thrust into the hot reactor through an opening in the lead-and-concrete shielding, and came out again as an untouchable mixture of deadly radioactives in which cautious analysis revealed the triumphant traces of man-made magnesium or silicon or gold.