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Synonyms for ostracized


Grammar : Adj
Spell : os-truh-sahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒs trəˌsaɪz



Définition of ostracized

Origin :
  • 1640s, from Greek ostrakizein "to banish," literally "to banish by voting with potshards" (see ostracism). Figurative sense of "to exclude from society" is attested from 1640s. Related: Ostracization; ostracized; ostracizing.
  • adj banished
Example sentences :
  • She was not excluded, but she was not welcome; she was not ostracized, but she had lost consideration.
  • Extract from : « Marriage la mode » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • He matched Injun cunnin' agin the 'white laws' en got ostracized.
  • Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
  • She is ostracized everywhere, and it means, if discovered, her social death.
  • Extract from : « Woman » by William J. Robinson
  • Foreigners should be barred from citizenship and Catholics should be ostracized.
  • Extract from : « Expansion and Conflict » by William E. Dodd
  • Post meridiem, we are ostracized, if not more rudely mobbed.
  • Extract from : « Mount Rainier » by Various
  • And for this the coroner had suggested that she should be ostracized.
  • Extract from : « Lady Lilith » by Stephen McKenna
  • The abolitionists in Boston at this time, were ostracized from genteel society.
  • Extract from : « Men of Our Times » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • It was a country where men that had honest thoughts were ostracized.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll
  • What mattered if he were a fugitive, if he were ostracized and despised?
  • Extract from : « The Heart of a Woman » by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
  • They took it as a public disgrace, and Poppy had been ostracized ever since.
  • Extract from : « God's Green Country » by Ethel M. Chapman

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