What's the difference between outcast and pariah?

Outcast


Definition:

  • (a.) Cast out; degraded.
  • (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
  • (n.) A quarrel; a contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (2) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
  • (3) A few floors above Baumanns’ cafe the teenage outcast was studying mass killers and preparing for murder himself, police said.
  • (4) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (5) You become an outcast," said Wada president, John Fahey.
  • (6) M from dominant rats under normal conditions were shown to exhibit higher energy and to possess better respiratory energy regulation than those of "outcast" rats.
  • (7) "They have run out of money, face daily threats to their safety, and are being treated as outcasts for no other crime than losing their men to a vicious war.
  • (8) At Cambridge, Oliver says not entirely jokingly, he felt "outcast and angry"; in his first week there he met Richard Ayoade , later to star in The IT Crowd, and they bonded over "not feeling particularly comfortable about being exposed to the top end of the class system".
  • (9) Community leaders vowed to organise and form a better defence for subsequent nights, helped by members of the Outcast and Dominant Breed motorcycle clubs who lined their bikes up in front of stores.
  • (10) Thousands of children in west Africa have been orphaned by Ebola and are at risk of becoming outcasts from communities frightened of the infectious disease, according to Unicef.
  • (11) The suit alleged that the film portrayed people living in the mountains, who are often of mixed Native American and white heritage and were once known by the derogatory term “Jackson Whites”, as inbred social outcasts.
  • (12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (13) But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.
  • (14) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
  • (15) If you don’t have a job, you are made to feel like an outcast from your community,” Jean-Pierre says.
  • (16) They tell us that the authorities have 86% support, loyalty to Putin is total, [governing party] United Russia enjoys colossal popularity, and the opposition is a bunch of outcasts that can only exist within [downtown Moscow] on Twitter and Facebook and don’t know how to communicate with the people,” Yashin told the Guardian after a campaign stop.
  • (17) Without papers, status or rights, they are outcasts.
  • (18) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (19) They don’t want to be punked out of their own neighbourhood.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greets members of the Outcast motorcycle club before a vigil in Ferguson.
  • (20) His 1964 album Bitter Tears, subtitled Ballads Of The American Indian, included Cash's memorable treatment of Pete LaFarge's Ballad Of Ira Hayes, and was the first of many instances of his willingness to speak up for outcasts and underdogs.

Pariah


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
  • (n.) An outcast; one despised by society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He will sell his country's transition from international pariah to poster boy for democratic change, trade and investment.
  • (2) The problem is that your typical BNP member is a social pariah who is more into pornography than starting a family," he said.
  • (3) It was only after a combination of heavy taxation (price), heavy legislation (banning smoking in public places), and heavy propaganda (warnings on packets; an effective, sustained anti-smoking advertising campaign; and most crucially, education in schools) was brought to bear on a resistant tobacco industry that smoking became a pariah activity for a new generation of potential consumers, and real, lasting change took place.
  • (4) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
  • (5) "There's so many ways you could do Netflix better using BitTorrent, and the reason they haven't done it is because, in their initial dealings with Hollywood, BitTorrent was the pariah they had to beat.
  • (6) Sterling became a national pariah over the weekend after the news site TMZ posted a 10-minute recording of what it said was a 9 April conversation he had with his girlfriend, Vanessa Stiviano, 38.
  • (7) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
  • (8) All these elements are not present at the moment ..." In nine months, Brown has gone from being popular - the man who saved Britain from financial meltdown - to a pariah.
  • (9) Critics say this would be akin to apartheid and make Israel a pariah state.
  • (10) Defour’s status at his former club fell to pariah and caused a graphic banner to be unfurled when he returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne in Anderlecht colours.
  • (11) In his early years in power Bashir oversaw the transformation of Sudan into a radical Islamic pariah state that provided a refuge for the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden.
  • (12) "He is now three days into a prison sentence and, probably worse than all of that, he has managed to achieve a notoriety and perhaps pariah status."
  • (13) Another serious issue is how to institutionalize and hospitalize poor and minority AIDS victims without turning the wards and hospitals into pariah institutions.
  • (14) The Zionist Union offers a clear alternative to a policy which has not only failed to bring security but is also eroding the foundations of Israeli democracy and turning the country into an international pariah.
  • (15) The suspicion is that the striker will be greeted in his homeland as a returning hero rather than a pariah whose latest spasm of indiscipline has most likely wrecked Uruguay’s chances at this World Cup .
  • (16) Barack Obama has warned North Korea that the United States "will not hesitate to use our military might" to defend allies, condemning the actions of "a pariah state that would rather starve its people than feed their hopes and dreams" and characterising the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas as "freedom's frontier".
  • (17) Syria’s first lady is a pariah figure in the international community and nobody disputes that her husband’s government is responsible for the forced displacement, injury and vulnerability of millions of people within the country.
  • (18) By then, of course, Rich and his business partner, Pincus 'Pinky' Green, had long since fled to Zug, and were well on their way to making the money back through a series of sanctions-busting oil shipments to South Africa and other 'pariah' states.
  • (19) Others suggest that, ironically, Koussa may have become tainted in Gaddafi circles by virtue of his success in opening up contacts with western intelligence agencies, with whom he negotiated Libya's transformation from pariah status in the last decade.
  • (20) Not everybody in the Republican party has entirely forgotten or forgiven the Iraq and Afghan wars that have made Blair and president George W Bush such pariahs on the international stage, but the party’s private retreat is perhaps one of the last major political arenas where an audience is prepared to overlook that uncomfortable chapter.