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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

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 MacKenzie, Compton

With few exceptions, they were ancient books in battered calf, which Steel had stigmatized as "musty trash" once when Rachel had asked him if she might take one.

From The Shadow of the Rope by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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 Gaboriau, Émile