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 can anathematize better men than themselves; and denounce slavery as a curse, an evil, a hardship!

From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward

I anathematize his formal sentiment, but there is a truth in it, when spoken of material acts.

From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

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

Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka.

From Time Magazine Archive

First of all he anathematized himself for daring to put to the test that lulled security of his own feelings for Mrs. Collingwood.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

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

On every side the Old Believer raised about him a wall of scruples and prejudices, entrenching himself behind his stagnation and ignorance, and anathematizing all civilization in a breath.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

He then commenced reloading his gun, and lecturing P-o-o-n-to, who still continued his exertions, and inwardly anathematizing Mr. Sponge.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees