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

Many feared the decision could further stigmatize the shot in a moment when many parents are refusing it simply because the recommendation is under review.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

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

Formerly, when the Jesuits had powerful protectors, the practice was to turn them into ridicule; now, that they have powerful enemies, the object is to stigmatize them with every vice.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)