Example sentences for: anathematized

How can you use “anathematized” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”

  • Van Dine's detective novels of the 1930s might have been mystified by the insertion into the dialogue of its lordly hero expressions like don'tcher know and the anathematized ain't .


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