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Desperado vs Pariah - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between desperado and pariah

is that desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West while pariah is an outcast.

desperado

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
  • *1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
    • The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
  • *1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
  • *:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
  • (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

    • pariah

    English

    (wikipedia pariah)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outcast.
  • A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
  • Someone in exile.
  • A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
  • A person who is rejected (from society or home).

    • Quotations

    * 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue *: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know. * 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14 *: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’ * 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html]) *: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.

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