Definitions for pariahs

pariahs pa·ri·ah

Spelling: [puh-rahy-uh]
IPA: /pəˈraɪ ə/

Pariahs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in pariahs (aahiprs).

Definitions for pariahs

noun

  1. an outcast.
  2. any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided.
  3. (initial capital letter) a member of a low caste in southern India and Burma.

Origin of pariahs

1605-15; Tamil paṟaiyar, plural of paṟaiyan literally, drummer (from a hereditary duty of the caste), derivative of paṟai a festival drum

Examples for pariahs

If passed, the draft legislation would essentially make Moscow a pariah economy.

An Artaud, their ancestor, had come hither and settled like a pariah in this waste.

No; he must himself warn Dom Diego that he was a leper—a pariah.

He, too, is a pariah in Pakistan, rarely acknowledged and never claimed as the “pride” of the nation.

The barriers passed, your pariah gentleman can be the completest blackguard of them all.

President Obama is reportedly set on making Russia “a pariah state.”

Certainly the bitcoin community continues to treat Karpeles as a pariah.

He nonetheless found himself something of a pariah, and when he was unable to find a job, he sold fish in the street.

Him did that pariah's soul attract from heaven even to earth to save it.

To be the pariah of such a society was indeed a most distinctive infamy.

Word Value for pariahs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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