stigmatize
verb (used with object)
to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon.
had stigmatized
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past perfectof stigmatize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the time since they’ve been allowed to reopen, some owners said they believed the county’s previous announcement had stigmatized their businesses, which in turn created mistrust that has led to a drop in customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2020
It was also, at least implicitly, a justification for the strong executive leadership Washington had provided in the 1790s and that his critics had stigmatized as a monarchy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
So little of either energy or organization had marked their endeavors, that the great leader of the day had stigmatized their town with terms of heavy censure, and even pronounced them unworthy of the cause.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
In that moment he knew that it was time for him to leave Malford and prepare himself to be a priest elsewhere, and otherwise than by what the Rector had stigmatized as the pseudo-monastic life.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
He will confess to you besides that he subsists entirely on the bounty of the lad, whom he had stigmatized as an ungrateful villain.
From The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau
