OSTRACIZE


Meaning of OSTRACIZE in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

After her arrest, Lang was ostracized by her neighbors.

He had committed crimes so appalling that even other prisoners ostracized him.

Many young people are unwilling to admit that they are gay because they fear being ostracized.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.

But it was too late to save Thernistokles; in 471 he was ostracized.

Free riders may be ostracized because their colleagues can easily detect uncooperative attitudes to the company.

His client is broke, Baker said, and ostracized.

So she spends a good part of the movie getting back at everyone for ostracizing her.

The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition.

They might approve of, and practice, ostracizing homosexuals from society, but stoning them to death?

They said when they complained about the message, they were threatened with demotion and termination, ostracized and denied promotion.

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