stigmatize

Example Sentences

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At one point, she bluntly, exasperatedly asks us, “Doesn’t the scandal of the greatest artist of his age, stigmatized and targeted because he was a foreigner, resonate now with the rebirth of our ordinary xenophobias?”

From New York Times

Telling a patient their condition is “in their head” contributes to medical misinformation and further stigmatizes patients with these disorders.

From Scientific American

Too many prisoners emerge stigmatized and lacking basic skills.

From New York Times

Those kids are growing up, and many of them are stigmatized—they’re 12 years old, and they’ve just been told by their mother that they’ve been taking pills, and those pills are for HIV.

From Scientific American

Do we want them to leave prison alienated, brutalized, stigmatized and lacking in employable skills?

From New York Times