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.
  • Israel has become a pariah in the eyes of the world.
    — Rabbi Steve Roth, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • He’s gone from being a pariah to mainstream.
    — Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
  • His actions turn him into a pariah and haunt him for the rest of the series.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Eleni is now regarded as a pariah by the same people that once saw her as a hero.
    — Quartz Contributor, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Russia will keep the pariah status that Putin has brought it.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 28 Feb. 2022
  • But over the past six months, the group has become almost a pariah in the movie business.
    — Time, 11 May 2021
  • Not that the townspeople, who treat him like some sort of true pariah, are much better.
    — Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Putin is now, at minimum, a pariah condemned by leaders across the world.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
  • If Afghanistan is declared a pariah, that’s when everything will have been lost.
    — Time, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Russia’s pariah status in sports and art may be weakening.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • First, go back a week to the moment that made Bridgeman a temporary pariah.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Prince Andrew is pretty much already a pariah.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But while he was lionized in the West, Gorbachev came to be seen as a pariah at home.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The compromise won an end to Sudan’s pariah status in the world.
    — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2021
  • If Damsky returns to law school, some classmates will treat him as a social pariah who deserves scorn.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Israel was becoming a pariah state.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
  • There’s understandably a lot of disquiet, as he is now viewed as a total pariah.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But not everyone is on board with imposing full-on pariah status on Putin.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Not everyone treated the couple as pariahs, though.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • Ethan Nordean was becoming a pariah in Des Moines and beyond.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 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
  • As someone who is clearly a lonely pariah with few friends and zero family, this is often.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The enraged, grieving parents of the missing kids brand Justine a pariah.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Under the first Taliban regime, Afghanistan was considered a pariah state.
    — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 17 July 2022
  • Tehran has long led a pariah state, with its only allies being Russia and China.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026

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