untouchable
ਅਛੂਤ
definition
noun
During a recent visit, I found liberals and intellectuals, jet-setters and slum dwellers, men and women, Brahmins and untouchables expressing this Hindu pride.
a member of the lowest-caste Hindu group or a person outside the caste system. Contact with untouchables is traditionally held to defile members of higher castes.
adjective
a receptionist looking gorgeous and untouchable
not able or allowing to be touched or affected.
of or belonging to the lowest-caste Hindu group or the people outside the caste system.
example
The health service is very politicised in this country which makes it almost 'untouchable' .
From his days as a small-time fence selling stolen goods from Boston's second-hand shop in Leith to the years running guns and stolen vehicles up the coast of east Africa, it appeared that he was 'untouchable' .
While they were 'untouchable' last year, there may be four or five teams chasing Kilkenny's tail this year, each giving their fans a reason to feel optimistic about the summer.
It looked ethereal, almost 'untouchable' , and I fingered the silk, let it run between my fingers like water, then folded it up with the rest of my stuff that I would need.
The outcome was ‘diversity training’, which made self-designated victim groups such as women, gays or travellers virtually 'untouchable' .
The match started promisingly for Oxford, as Hannah of Oriel was 'untouchable' in the hammer throw, achieving a match record of 37. 24m.
Cast in the role of liberation movement valiantly fighting multiple evils of the apartheid system, the ANC is able to situate itself on the virtually 'untouchable' high moral ground.
It was only during the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, when the monarchy was 'untouchable' , that George IV was able to force through the royal building-spree that culminated in Buckingham Palace.
If marriage is invincible, indelibly written on the human heart, 'untouchable' or only slightly touched by culture, where do all these fatherless families come from?
The life that can never be recreated is the invisible, 'untouchable' inner one, which cannot be reproduced even by the most psychoanalytical detective.
These three Lebanese designers have not attempted to become the disembodied and 'untouchable' master architect.
The trio was under the impression that they were 'untouchable' and would beat the rap and began to transfer their assets to relatives' modern-day off-shore accounts.
In the streets, they are almost 'untouchable' , but their property is not.
Protected by his alleged status as a police informer, and until recently by two bodyguards, he has become a Scottish Don Corleone, the feared head of an 'untouchable' empire.
Although there was no certainty as to the overall winner, at the time of going to press it looked like it would be the midland's day, as deputy presidential candidate, Derek from Carlow was already 'untouchable' .
He is one of Cincinnati's top prospects, and was deemed 'untouchable' when the team was negotiating the trade.
The classical epic was born in the silent era of Chaplin and Dietrich, and its success was synonymous with the golden age of Hollywood, a time of lavish productions and an exotic world of 'untouchable' screen icons.
Indeed, the citizenry's incentive to finger such bad guys isn't particularly strong when the word on the street is that the these people are 'untouchable' .
It was like reaching back in time and touching the 'untouchable' , the unknowable.
‘It was kind of a wake-up call that we're not 'untouchable' ,’ said Logan, who lives in the District.
Are we now to assume the England rugby team is officially 'untouchable' in the prize-giving context by all except an elite comprising members of the Royal Family, knights of the realm and fellow World Cup winners?
They were arrogant enough to think they were 'untouchable' , but they have been arrested.
Police were today still hunting the weapon used to kill the 6ft, 20-stone criminal, who boasted in a TV documentary that he was 'untouchable' .
He said: ‘Many offenders think that they are 'untouchable' and above the law.’
A month or so ago, Arsenal, 49 matches without defeat, looked 'untouchable' .
They think they are 'untouchable' because excuses are made for their appalling behaviour.
We all know that youths are 'untouchable' , that we're not allowed to defend ourselves and that authority is ridiculed.
If the government really wanted to restore the public trust they should go after execs like those at Adelphia and Enron that betray the public trust by acting like they are above the law, that corporate crime is 'untouchable' .
Agreed, Danny was 'untouchable' last year with his Yakumbuyo album to the extent that fans still talk about the title-track at his shows the moment he finishes performing Kaya.
The order should show that no one is 'untouchable' .
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