pariah

This goes all kinds of wrong, setting off a viral brouhaha and turning the hapless Owen into an unwitting pariah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Myanmar's ex-junta chief Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Bangkok Thursday for his first visit to Thailand as civilian leader, as he seeks a return to the diplomatic fold for his pariah state.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ed Henry KC, representing Y, said the boy had been made a "pariah" as a result of the public being misled by reporting of the case because of an inaccurate press release from the CPS.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Simpson was acquitted, but he never regained the public’s affection or goodwill, and will forever be remembered as a pariah who perhaps got away with literal murder.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Others are released again, only to find themselves in precisely the circumstances they occupied before, unable to cope with the stigma of the prison label and their permanent pariah status.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Myanmar's post-coup leaders have been considered pariahs by many nations abroad.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

They worry about being disfigured or disabled; they fear becoming pariahs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

For a brief moment, militias were pariahs to both parties.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2025

“We obviously want to collaborate, but we’re seen as the pariahs right now, we’re seen as the bogeymen,” Song said.

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024

John Early, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, arrived at Carville in 1918, when patients were treated as prisoners and pariahs rather than people who needed medical care.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly