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pariah

/puh-rahy-uh/US // pəˈraɪ ə //UK // (pəˈraɪə, ˈpærɪə) //

贱民,旁观者,旁观者清,弃儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an outcast.
    • : any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided.
    • : a member of a low caste in southern India and Burma.

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Examples

  • Suddenly she was no longer an untouchable, Western-backed political celebrity but a global pariah.

  • The plot, which saw Khashoggi lured to his death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, turned MBS from a figure many hoped would modernize Saudi Arabia into an international pariah.

  • A protest movement kicked Sudan’s Islamist leaders out of power last year, ushering in a new military-led government that wants to end its global pariah status.

  • We have already entered the realm of becoming a pariah nation, and I think that will become a bigger issue under a second term.

  • By late summer, Italy was being lauded by the international public health community and by the press, including the New York Times, saying the country had “gone from global pariah to a model.”

  • He nonetheless found himself something of a pariah, and when he was unable to find a job, he sold fish in the street.

  • He, too, is a pariah in Pakistan, rarely acknowledged and never claimed as the “pride” of the nation.

  • Certainly the bitcoin community continues to treat Karpeles as a pariah.

  • If passed, the draft legislation would essentially make Moscow a pariah economy.

  • President Obama is reportedly set on making Russia “a pariah state.”

  • A roar came from the populace; an elephant trumpeted; the pariah dogs barked.

  • Then the pariah realises that she is thrust beyond the pale of human purity.

  • He was a pariah, a leper, and so must continue—a thing to be shunned.

  • He considered that he was a natural pariah; that the unpopularity at school would follow him through life.

  • The human order hostile, he quickly loses his self-respect and drops to the pariah class.