shaming

Example Sentences

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The best solution is to fix these warped incentives, but naming and shaming negligent states could still do some good.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

In one school I visited in Rochdale, they were starting a girls club in which they would discuss it all: from gender inequality, to domestic violence and body shaming, to periods, sexuality and friendship groups.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

“Because one job should be enough, one job should be enough, and we need to get away from the victim shaming of educators.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Explicitly acknowledging that these dinners are a financial stretch for them can feel like you’re shaming them.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

Rather than shaming and condemning an already deeply stigmatized group, we, collectively, can embrace them—not necessarily their behavior, but them—their humanness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander