Synonyms of ostracized

ostracized

verb

past tense of ostracize

as in criticized

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.

Related Words

• criticized
• attacked
• denounced
• excommunicated
• condemned
• blamed
• hated
• blacklisted
• disparaged
• belittled
• censured
• decried
• anathematized
• faulted
• execrated
• panned
• damned
• scolded
• sentenced
• convicted
• doomed
• knocked
• reprobated
• deprecated
• slammed
• chastised
• reprehended
• reprimanded
• berated
• rebuked
• dissed
• dispraised
• blasted
• admonished
• reviled
• castigated
• upbraided
• abhorred
• reproached
• detested
• loathed
• cursed
• reproved
• raked
• lambasted
• vituperated
• chid
• abominated
• imprecated

Dissimilar Words

• approved
• sanctioned
• endorsed
• praised
• exalted
• applauded
• lauded
• commended
• hailed
• extolled
• acclaimed
• saluted
• glorified
• honored
• sanctified
• revered
• consecrated
• touted
• eulogized
• blessed
• venerated
• hallowed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ostracized

Some are more comfortable than others with staging the show, like high schoolers Bones and Megan, best friends who have grounded heads on their shoulders about how they’ve been ostracized by their broader communities. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 July 2026

Three years later, censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48. — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026

Carlos and Smith were ostracized for their actions for decades. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

At the same time, sports stars such as the former tennis champion Martina Navratilova—a lesbian who is a longtime LGBTQ-rights campaigner—have been ostracized after speaking in favor of restricting the women’s category to biological females. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026

Their rivals were a candid, impudent pair, the schoolgirlish Shakira and a throaty American bottle-service girl named Toni, both incapable of conniving their way into romance, prone to heartbreak, and swiftly ostracized for their overt judgment of other islanders. — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026

Pride Nights and radical members of the LGBTQ community, including Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow, have shamed, and even ostracized millions of fans and many players who don’t align with their ideology. — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026

As if the police brutality were not sufficient punishment, certain friends and relatives ostracized the Mashininis. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026

In 2023, the councilmember decisively beat back a recall attempt funded by Santa Ana’s police union and apartment owners who didn’t like her unabashedly progressive views in a city where centrist Democrats have dominated politics for decades and lefty ones were long ostracized. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026