How to Use pariah in a Sentence

pariah

noun
  • I felt like a pariah when I wore the wrong outfit to the dinner party.
  • He's a talented player but his angry outbursts have made him a pariah in the sport of baseball.
  • The league pariah is now a leader in voice, spirit and deed.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2022
  • His actions turn him into a pariah and haunt him for the rest of the series.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • But over the past six months, the group has become almost a pariah in the movie business.
    Time, 11 May 2021
  • Russia will keep the pariah status that Putin has brought it.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 28 Feb. 2022
  • But while he was lionized in the West, Gorbachev came to be seen as a pariah at home.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • More to the point, he is ostracized, a pariah both as a student and later as a trustee.
    David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Eleni is now regarded as a pariah by the same people that once saw her as a hero.
    Quartz Contributor, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
  • His three-run homer put the Yankees ahead late in the game and made him forever a pariah in Boston.
    USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The compromise won an end to Sudan’s pariah status in the world.
    NBC News, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Truth Social is nothing more than a pariah at this point.
    John Brandon, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The birth of Big Oil, now an environmental pariah, helped pull right whales away from the brink.
    Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Ethan Nordean was becoming a pariah in Des Moines and beyond.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
  • If Afghanistan is declared a pariah, that’s when everything will have been lost.
    Time, 19 Aug. 2021
  • De León is a political pariah for refusing to resign in the wake of the racist tape leak.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • By making this move now, Kelly should be a pariah in his profession, never thought of the same way again.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Putin is now, at minimum, a pariah condemned by leaders across the world.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Russia has become a pariah state since the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • Under the first Taliban regime, Afghanistan was considered a pariah state.
    Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 17 July 2022
  • Just a few years before her show launched, DeGeneres was a Hollywood pariah.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
  • Over the course of just six years, Sinead O’Connor went from an international superstar to a pariah.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
  • And Marshall — never one to pull punches with his comments on the need for a hard-nosed union — became a pariah as soon as his success waned slightly.
    Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • Russia was fast becoming an economic pariah: the lights were going out at Ikea, H&M, and Zara.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • In the first days and weeks of the conflict, there was a real sense of shock in Russia as the country became a global pariah abandoned by Western businesses.
    Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Le Pen's France would have sought a path toward accommodation with a Russia that is a pariah to much of the free world, and looked inward, pulling back from Europe.
    David A. Andelman, CNN, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Their social pariah status turns into a power of sorts.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The pre-owned market, previously a pariah of the luxury watch world, is booming.
    Laura McCreddie-Doak, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
  • But not everyone is on board with imposing full-on pariah status on Putin.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Among the free nations of the Western world, America has become an outlier, and is at risk of becoming a pariah.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 8 Sep. 2021

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