Example sentences for: stigmatized

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

  • Since obese men are less stigmatized, it may also explain why wealthier men are not that much less obese than poorer men.

  • Even the most superficial analysis of any speech community would reveal that certain varieties of speech are prestigious and others are stigmatized, and that what determines a particular variety's status has virtually nothing to do with the internal features of that variety and everything to do with the class, and in this case the race, of the speakers involved.

  • The NYT says the surgeon general's report finds that most people with mental disorders don't get help because they don't think effective treatments exist, or they fear being stigmatized, or because they lack applicable insurance.

  • The metaphor undermines the Losing Ground Murray, the guy who writes that "[u]ntil the government began masking the social costs created by large numbers of fatherless children, civilized communities everywhere stigmatized illegitimacy."

  • As those who use infer for imply might be somehow stigmatized in (some) educated circles, failure to report such a usage leaves the suspicious user of a dictionary (or grammar) who has the wit to look it up facing a serious lacuna in the information given about the language.


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