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
• The Democrats are helping a far-right election denier who has become a pariah within her party in her race against a less extreme, but still election-denying, conservative.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Syria itself is an international pariah under Western sanctions linked to the war.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024