scarlet letter

His outsider status as a hunchback is instead a costume that presumably serves as scarlet letter or Star of David.

I believe he lived with a scarlet letter on him because of it.

"By taking a hand gesture that everyone makes and turning it into a scarlet letter they can brand literally anyone an evil feminist," he said.

Rather than a badge of honor, Romney’s ultimate act of bipartisanship was seen by some Republican primary voters as a scarlet letter.

“But now I have, like, a scarlet letter and the medical stuff so even if I could go to work, my face would be doing gymnastics.”