scarlet letter

Example Sentences

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It is not a scarlet letter enough for me that detestable owners are merely forced — or encouraged — to sell teams they ruined in myriad ways.

From Washington Post

“It was almost like getting a scarlet letter,” he added.

From New York Times

But seeing it becoming more of a “scarlet letter” under Musk than a symbol of credibility, he used a technique to scrub the blue tick from his profile.

From Seattle Times

"But it is a little bit of a scarlet letter for Trump that his opponents could use against him. Such an argument could be persuasive for independent voters."

From Reuters

Years later, when DeSantis embarked on the first of three successful campaigns to represent Florida in Congress, he says, he considered his fancy degrees to be “political scarlet letters.”

From Washington Post