OSTRACIZE Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

ostracize

verb

as in to criticize

to not allow (someone) to be included in a group; to exclude (someone) from a group She was ostracized by the scientific community for many years because of her radical political beliefs. The other girls ostracized her because of the way she dressed.

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Recent Examples on the Web Robyn Brown's eldest daughters are opening up about feeling ostracized by their family. —

Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024 But because the state also mandates expulsions and felony charges, many students end up ostracized and isolated rather than getting the ongoing help that experts consider to be one of the greatest strengths of the threat assessment process. —

Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2024 Her daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega, the star of Wednesday, for which Burton directed several episodes), feels ostracized by her mother’s famously spooky history and art-brat upbringing; in a reverse of Beetlejuice’s teenage Lydia, Astrid desperately yearns for a normal life. —

Joshua Rivera, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024 All of them fugitives from autocratic imprisonment or isolation in deep chambers, ostracized as monsters in belfries and underground cisterns. —

Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for ostracize

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