ostracize

When the Athenians voted to ostracize him, he became a Persian governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“The Traitors” is a social game, so when Funches’ early big swing at another contestant misses terribly, the rest of the players instantly ostracize him.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

“It is never my intent to ostracize or diminish.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Rather than ostracize the neighborhood’s teenagers, he wants to find ways to engage them and show them the value of being part of a culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

“We used to ostracize everyone, even each other.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Will's signature swagger, which was once-revered in his old town, now ostracizes him from his peers and loved ones.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022

The film portrays how Japanese society, often working like a claustrophobic village, ostracizes and punishes what it sees as erring individuals.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Mesa County’s “siloed, non-collaborative behavior ostracizes us from our Western Slope neighbors,” she added.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2019

A man searches for answers a decade after his close-knit high school clique inexplicably ostracizes him.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2014

Your view of her situation is admirable, and, by your skilful tactique, it is she herself that ostracizes the society that would only have accepted her on sufferance.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

“To find we have been ostracized for practicing as Catholics have done for 2000 years is of great anxiety to us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He declared himself a conscientious objector during World War II. He was imprisoned, abandoned by his family and returned to Birmingham only to be further ostracized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Anyone presenting information not approved by the ruler is denounced and belittled, ostracized and denied access.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

He did not add that he was already on his way out of the Klan, ostracized by the very people he had been trying to help.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Instead of ostracizing Black, some of the students tried to change his mind.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2023

The incident, she said, reminded her of the worst ostracizing in Nazi Germany.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

Piednoir, the senator, said the players were ostracizing themselves.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

“The real harm to transgender youth lies in the bullying and ostracizing that they face for being branded as ‘different.’”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

With the conviction that she is past redemption, doors closed, no one loving her, people, yes, her own sex, ostracizing her—she becomes hopeless, desperate, reckless.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell