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US
/ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz/
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VERB
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mark with a stigma or stigmata
They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress -
to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
He denounced the government action
She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
How To Use stigmatize In A Sentence
- It is pertinent to destigmatize depression, so those suffering from it could seek medical help.
- HIV-positive Pedro Zamora from the San Francisco season, for example, put a face to the stigmatized disease of AIDS and did a world of good with his exposure -- even getting the recognition of then-president Bill Clinton. Ryan O'Connell: Auditioning for the Real World Is Too Real
- By the nineteenth century, the Beta Israel eventually took up stigmatized craft occupations, which also became associated with the connotation Falasha (Quirin, 1992). Ethiopian Jewish Women.
- We must enact public education programs that destigmatize HIV testing and embed it into the fabric of people's lives. Perry N Halkitis, Ph.D., M.S.: Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS
- Illegitimacy was no longer stigmatized and unmarried mothers were given all the rights of married women.
- Fed: Telling us where our bailout trillions went would "stigmatize" banksters Nice little health care plan you've got there. Corrente
- Well, "stigmatized" is too light a word -- "damned" is more like it. E. Jean Carroll: Does Being Fat Kill Your Career?
- Like others, Ani feels that renting has been "stigmatised" in the same way that buying had been "overvalued". Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home
- In the left-wing newspaper Libération, editor Laurent Joffrin argued that the cartoon reeked of anti-Semitism: “The association of the Jew, money and power in one phrase which stigmatises the arrivisme of an individual.” Allegedly Anti-Semitic Cartoon Leaves France in Frenzy
- Most are concerned that their daughters will be stigmatized by any association with lesbianism.
