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

They proceeded to anathematize each other, and when induced by friends they met at a conference, each claimed the victory in the argument.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

One does not need even mildly to anathematize the instigators of that historic riot.

From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Finding them obstinate, he finally anathematized them at the Council of Verona in 1184, but they still refused to abandon their mission, or even to consider themselves as separated from the Church.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

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

He joined me in anathematizing the careless mate of the Empress and the stupid editor of the Liverpool paper.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles

Long after we left the beach we heard those old cracked, crabbed voices anathematizing the younger members of that community. 

From Adventures in New Guinea by James Chalmers