stigmatize
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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
“When you say you are a Vodouist, they stigmatize you,” said Kadel Bazile, a 42-year-old civil engineer.
From Seattle Times • May 9, 2024
Virologists have also come to acknowledge that names can stigmatize people or places.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
Formerly, when the Jesuits had powerful protectors, the practice was to turn them into ridicule; now, that they have powerful enemies, the object is to stigmatize them with every vice.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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