noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
social
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There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership, too.
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The social stigma attached to epilepsy 3.
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The perceived social stigma of a tuberculosis diagnosis may be so severe as to cause people to avoid testing or treatment.
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For fear of some social stigma or psychological scarring, adopted children were routinely lied to about their beginnings.
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Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled.
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The fact of living in the back region itself leaves a social stigma .
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However, considerably more social stigma is attached to unemployment than to early retirement.
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Morrissey is the martyr - confessing to almost every social stigma in the book and finding pleasure in pain.
■ VERB
carry
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Trade continued to carry a stigma .
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For children, obesity carries a stigma that starts early.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At first I found the stigma of being unemployed very difficult to cope with.
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Even when someone has been found innocent of a crime, the stigma often remains.
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In many countries there is still a strong social stigma attached to homosexuality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if we attack the stigma against unsafe behavior, we might just do the same for that.
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Farmers still have the problem of overcoming the stigma which all too often young people attach to working on the land.
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I didn't want this stigma on you too.
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Pollen must be transferred by hand from one flower to the stigma of another flower on a separate plant.
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The stigma may not result from associating her language with ignorance, but the unkindness is just as real.
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The negative side of reputation is stigma .
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They have all suffered grievously: shame, stigma and extreme social exclusion.