- past tense form of stigmatize.
- past participle of stigmatize.
stigmatized
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the most telling moment came when Whoopi Goldberg raised the issue of race, asking what Black Americans had done to deserve being stigmatized by the administration.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
Fur "was stigmatized for so long," Jacobs told AFP, posing before a full-length mirror and assessing a potential crop.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Some were less comfortable with the possibility of false positives, since there are often autistic people, or users whose first language isn’t English, whose writing styles are stigmatized as A.I.-like.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
Nicole Coates, 39, of Meridian, Idaho, feels God asked her to speak up about her estrangement from her eldest child, who is 22, to help other estranged mothers and fathers feel less stigmatized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
Many perfectly good English constructions were stigmatized because they had no counterparts in the language of Lucretius and Cicero.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
