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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stigmatize.

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Examples

  • We understand that word stigmatizes millions of people ... we are sensitive to the point.

    Timothy P. Shriver: O'Reilly and the R-Word Factor 2009

  • This word stigmatizes millions of people around the world, and use of the word shows very poorly on the character of the person.

    Deadspin 2009

  • This word stigmatizes millions of people around the world, and use of the word shows very poorly on the character of the person.

    Deadspin 2009

  • The law is part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative law and order crackdown, which critics say stigmatizes immigrants -- members of France's Roma "Gypsy" community -- as second-class citizens, according to the Associated Press.

    French Pass Law To Strip Foreign-Born Criminals Of Nationality The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The Socialist opposition has reacted with its own declarations in defense of laïcité while nonetheless rejecting the debate as a divisive measure that stigmatizes Muslims.

    Toward an 'Islam de France' Nidra Poller 2011

  • "It is unacceptable and stigmatizes the Jewish people."

    Apple Withdraws App in France Noemie Bisserbe 2011

  • In countless American colleges, the first day of classes involves a rape seminar — largely to please the lawyers, no doubt — which stigmatizes men as potential predators and women as victims.

    Be My Valentine Lionel Tiger 2011

  • The law is part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative law and order crackdown, which critics say stigmatizes immigrants -- members of France's Roma "Gypsy" community -- as second-class citizens, according to the Associated Press.

    French Pass Law To Strip Foreign-Born Criminals Of Nationality The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • One single exception, perhaps: Crash!, this novelistic fantasy which stigmatizes the influence of the automobile on our civilization.

    Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun 2009

  • The minute they name you for investigation, that kind of stigmatizes you in a small community like this, so that is a big achievement in its own way, he said.

    Corruption Crackdown Dominates Liberian Presidential Campaign 2011

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