pariah

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.

   “What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a Pariah from genteel society.”

2. isim A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.

   “As ecological conditions became unfavorable for pig raising, there was no alternative function which could redeem its existence. The creature became not only useless, but worse than useless—harmful, a curse to touch or merely to see—a pariah animal.”

3. isim Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).