stigmatize

in a sentence

You have stigmatized this entire family!†  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Burned, 2006

Flinching or crying out was a sign of weakness and stigmatized one's manhood.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

How did Veronica, from the start fatherless, her family stigmatized, grow into her own fine self?†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

Women are quicker than men to adopt "prestige forms" of language, but also quicker to adopt symbols of nonconformism, new or "stigmatized forms" that can acquire a kind of "covert prestige."†  (source) Robert MacNeil and William Crane, Do You Speak American?, 2005

She had seen how things like this could stigmatize children and adults—into feeling that somehow they were less than, or not as smart or capable as, others.†  (source) Tim Tebow, Through My Eyes, 2011

Illdressing, over-dressing she stigmatised, not savagely, rather with impatient movements of the hands, like those of a painter who puts from him some obvious well-meant glaring imposture; and then, generously, but always critically, she would welcome a shopgirl who had turned her little bit of stuff gallantly, or praise, wholly, with enthusiastic and professional understanding, a French lady descending from her carriage, in chinchilla, robes, pearls.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

But for individuals who feel that the way they speak somehow stigmatizes them and restricts their opportunities, they're clearly going to want to change.†  (source) Robert MacNeil and William Crane, Do You Speak American?, 2005

Why, I had accepted of Grandma Lausch's warning only the part about the danger of our blood and that, through Mama, we were susceptible to love; not the stigmatizing part that made us out the carriers of the germ of ruination.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

When Henry lived in Ducie Street he remembered the mews; when he tried to let he forgot it; and if any one had remarked that the mews must be either there or not, he would have felt annoyed, and afterwards have found some opportunity of stigmatising the speaker as academic.†  (source) E. M. Forster, Howards End, 1910

On Thursday, I meet with Mr. Embry because Principal Wertz and the school board are requiring all friends and classmates of Theodore Finch to have at least one session with a counselor, even though The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatized way.†  (source) Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places, 2016

Perhaps it was imagination, but Joe felt they disapproved of his carrying so much money, not because it put him in danger but because these days people who dealt in cash were stigmatized.†  (source) Dean Koontz, Sole Survivor, 1997

....I have always understood, sir, that the citizens of these States were possessed of a full and entire freedom of opinion upon all subjects civil as well as religious; they have not yet established any infallible criterion of orthodoxy, either in church or state ...and the only political tenet which they could stigmatize with the name of heresy would be that which should attempt to impose an opinion upon their understandings, upon the single principle of authority.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850