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stigma
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stigma as in:  suffered the stigma of...

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  • You'd be surprised, the number of women who still find it a stigma.  (source)
    stigma = something to be ashamed of
  • Stigma, March says, keeps families from accepting a loved one's illness and seeking treatment for them, and it also marginalizes those who are afflicted.  (source)
    Stigma = societal disapproval or shaming
  • We might wonder whether trying to scare them was the appropriate direction to take, whether there was a social stigma surrounding tetanus that inhibited students from admitting that they were at risk, or perhaps that medical care itself was intimidating to students.  (source)
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  • I believe in a system of government that places that liberty at the center of its concerns, that enforces the law solely to protect that freedom, that sides with the individual against the claims of family and tribe and church and nation, that sees innocence before guilt and dignity before stigma.  (source)
    stigma = societal disapproval or shaming
  • Both problems created serious stigmas at the time.  (source)
  • What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both!  (source)
    stigma = mark of societal disapproval
  • There's got to be a way to get rid of the stigmas that come along with the numbers, but that's my goal.†  (source)
  • Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows.  (source)
  • That stigma came from both directions: Many of their new neighbors viewed them suspiciously.†  (source)
    stigma = societal disapproval or shaming associated with a behavior or a condition
  • Well, big stigma and fear, I understand.†  (source)
  • Being adopted isn't really a stigma I've ever had to overcome.†  (source)
  • Because I was born during a time when the stigma of racial hierarchy and Jim Crow had real consequences for the ways my elders had to act or react to a variety of indignations, I was mindful of the way that the daily humiliations and insults accumulated.†  (source)
  • I count myself very lucky to have escaped the stigma of association with such people — the Minister really could not be more gracious to me — and I do hope, Ron, that you will not allow family ties to blind you to the misguided nature of our parents' beliefs and actions, either.†  (source)
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