stigmatize

Example Sentences

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Critics of involuntary civil-commitment programs argue they violate civil liberties and stigmatize mental illness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The behaviors that Gerdes' bill seeks to stigmatize are — as any person who has ever met a child or been a child could tell you — entirely normal forms of play.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

Virologists have also come to acknowledge that names can stigmatize people or places.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

“Our Board of Supervisors knows that these conditions beneath human dignity stigmatize and traumatize people and make all of us less safe.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah