verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After her arrest, Lang was ostracized by her neighbors.
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He had committed crimes so appalling that even other prisoners ostracized him.
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Many young people are unwilling to admit that they are gay because they fear being ostracized.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.
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But it was too late to save Thernistokles; in 471 he was ostracized.
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Free riders may be ostracized because their colleagues can easily detect uncooperative attitudes to the company.
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His client is broke, Baker said, and ostracized.
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So she spends a good part of the movie getting back at everyone for ostracizing her.
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The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition.
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They might approve of, and practice, ostracizing homosexuals from society, but stoning them to death?
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They said when they complained about the message, they were threatened with demotion and termination, ostracized and denied promotion.