untouchables

plural of untouchable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untouchables
Noun
  • But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The comic focuses on a group of high school outcasts, but individual groups could be old college theatre kids, a dysfunctional rock band and more.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The scheme has long been used by global pariahs like Iran and North Korea, as well as drug cartels, said Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who has researched and written about shadow fleets.
    Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Other songs and prophecies speak of looking after widows and orphans, and welcoming strangers and outsiders.
    N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Latinos, as a group, are increasingly young and English-speaking, yet continue to be addressed as outsiders in their own country.
    JP Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Untouchables.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untouchables. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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