pariah

Part of this may have been an overreaction to pariah status, post-McCarthy, and part of it may have been the sensibility of a closeted gay man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

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

Beijing has also long served as the main mediator between Kim's pariah regime and the rest of the world.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

He was a senior when I was a freshman, and he considered telling everyone I’d been abducted by aliens and turning me into a social pariah his greatest achievement.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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