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pariah
noun
1. Someone scorned and avoided by others; a social outcast.
Thesaurus: outcast, exile, undesirable, untouchable, outlaw, leper, scapegoat, black sheep.
2. In S India and Burma: a member of a caste lower than the four Brahminical castes.
Etymology
: 17c: from Tamil
paraiyan
drummer.
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