anathematize

It is to Mr. Hale’s great credit that he refuses to anathematize the prodigal children in his book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Should we anathematize communication with half the population?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2020

This became another reason to anathematize Golden Books, which were for decades shunned by library buyers.

From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017

In that day the church used to anathematize insects.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

While he was yet opening his mouth to anathematize Mr. Murdock, that gentleman entered, familiar and cheerful.

From Jewel Weed by Harrison Fisher

Bayless anathematized James as a diva who was tough when trouncing inferior competition but “soft” when the lights were brightest.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018

BuzzFeed was so anathematized that by presser’s end, fellow journalists were picking up their lunch trays and moving to the other side of the cafeteria.

From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017

Two decades later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the very first session Nestorius was anathematized, deposed, excommunicated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was it not the one name, out of all the great German names associated with the war, which was anathematized more surely even than that of the Kaiser himself?

From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum

In some ways, the grotesqueries of his persona, rather than anathematizing him to voters, only enhanced his appeal among those wishing for something different.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2017

In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod.

From Time Magazine Archive

Would it be out of order to suggest a cursory glance at past history, sacred and secular, before completely anathematizing Heflin's stand?

From Time Magazine Archive

It was Morris or nothing with me, And now I began anathematizing to myself those crusty, secret, cautious natures that are always satisfied when they cry "Stop!" without taking the trouble to say wherefore.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

The male trespasser spent the next hour in hunting clothes and anathematizing dogs.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder