stigmatize

Example Sentences

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Critics of involuntary civil-commitment programs argue they violate civil liberties and stigmatize mental illness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

“I can accept myself and the world can still stigmatize me,” McMillan Cottom said.

From Salon • May 10, 2024

Virologists have also come to acknowledge that names can stigmatize people or places.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Countries should work on ways to give the shots —if available — in a way that wouldn’t stigmatize them, she said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

Upon being questioned, he explained that he meant to stigmatize these facts as "filthy."

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund