pariah
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Is pariah a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.Examples: "As ecological conditions became unfavorable for pig raising, there was no alternative function which could redeem its existence. The creature became not only useless, but worse than useless—harmful, a curse to touch or merely to see—a pariah animal."; "This scenario could lead to war crimes the scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that would make Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all global pariahs."figuratively
2. (zoology) Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis
Definition source: Wiktionary