Pariah

The regime should be treated as a pariah , not just as a hostile but recognizable political competitor.

Spring allergies will be mistaken for deathly disease and your runny nose will make you a social pariah.

He was a pariah in the international community.

So now I’m not only a big fatty, I’m also a social pariah , am I?

Racist jokes that would make one a social pariah in the United States are told boldly on television.

By today’s standards, the Roman Empire would be an international pariah .

Eventually, she turned her back on society, becoming the social pariah that she is now.

Such extreme views, however, have not made him a social pariah .

A few dozen of these political pariahs found employment, mostly in second-rate TV offerings where they were less likely to be spotted either by appearance or writing style.

Billboards are also telling people to give up now before they become social pariahs on March 29, the day the prohibition comes into effect.

Australians do not, I am sure, actively desire to be international pariahs .

Advocates are most unlikely to tell the public who will be worse off, except when they are trying to make political pariahs of the sufferers.

Irish smokers now have until April, it is thought, to kick the habit or be forced to become social pariahswhen they want to light up.

So everyone – or nearly everyone – makes sure to bring someone along as a security blanket, so they don’t look like social pariahs .

Now, six decades later, smokers have become the social pariahs : excluded, if not frowned upon, by contemporary behavioral codes and even municipal law.

Traveling alone (especially for women) is seen as sad and desperate, a cardinal sin, reserved for those social pariahs who talk to their cats.

In the past, smoking was fashionable and a status symbol, but today smokers are the social pariahs in many environments, particularly from increasing numbers of non-smokers.

They have since been treated as the pariahs of the political establishment.

That’s a pretty large segment of the population to reduce to the status of political pariahs