untouchables

plural of untouchable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for untouchables
Noun
  • That’s Spanish for Saint Death, a scythe-wielding skeleton folk saint popular in Latin America as a guardian of outcasts.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The Twits don’t have a change of heart and end up as outcasts once more, but the film frames Beesha’s mercy toward them in a positive light.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Remember, the Lord Jesus did not fear lepers, and leprosy was (and continues to be) a highly contagious infectious disease.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The town serves as the backdrop for what many surrounding the production consider the creative high point of the season — an episode 5 spaghetti western side mission that involves lepers, eye-gauging vultures, and a train pulled by zombies.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement The presence of India’s prime minister provided some democratic gloss to this parade of pariahs.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scatological attacks are usually the province of outsiders trying to cut the powerful down to size.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Erika Wright, a parent who leads the Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition, which advocates for public schools, said the state’s deep-red politics might lead outsiders to think Oklahomans support state leaders pushing education far to the right.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Untouchables.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untouchables. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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