Word: pariah
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Garrison didn't get many affectionate postmortems. By the time he lost the Shaw case, he was a genuine pariah, the only major political figure in New Orleans that the establishment press felt safe attacking. Garrison eventually became something of a safety valve for other politicians--the media would spill all their venom on him and by and large leave other politicians alone. In the same way, nobody really questioned Harry Connick's fervid law-and-order stance, reasoning that as long as he was against Garrison he deserved unified support...
Paul is a nine-year-old pariah. Schoolmates taunt him, and even his own family has begun to reject him. His offense: he insists on dressing up in his mother's clothes and playing dolls with his sister rather than joining his brother in outdoor games. His lot is not a happy one, but it is common enough among the patients at a unique psychiatric clinic at U.C.L.A., the Gender Identity Research Treatment Program...
Sadat backed up such actions with sizable steps toward Arab unity that had recently led to significant Arab diplomatic gains round the world. He arranged the return to grace in Arab circles of Jordan's King Hussein, who had been a pariah since he threw the Palestinian guerrillas out of his country three years ago. Sadat also established a new, more impressive alliance between the "confrontation" countries-Egypt, Syria and Jordan-and the oil sheikdoms, who until the energy crisis had been pretty well removed from the quarrel with Israel except for bankrolling it. The results of Sadat...
...traipse in thrilled with news of an upcoming African cruise and naively read the tight-lipped hostility that greeted me as polite Eastern reserve, Or I'd be tanned in December and wonder why no one asked me where I'd been. First strike--I was a political pariah...
...situation of Margaret Erlynne in Lady Windermere's Fan, the first successful play written by Oscar Wilde. After just a few months of married life, she left her husband and baby daughter in favor of another man. Once he abandoned her, she was left alone in the world--a pariah from the social circles she had once frequented. Twenty years later she reads that her daughter has married a rich peer, Lord Windermere. Adopting the pseudonym 'Erlynne' as a disguise, she returns to London and sets out to blackmail Lord Windermere in the hope of retrieving her lost place...