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is stigmatizing
verb
To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
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The decision to remove accreditation, he said, is "stigmatizing and embarrassing to students and staff at the schools".
Many of them say the cartoons reflect an intensifying anti-immigrant climate that is stigmatizing minorities and radicalizing young Muslims.
Rather than demonizing dependency or assuming that helping parents is stigmatizing, we should recognize that families and the government are both dependent — on each other.
"It's become more normative over the past 40 years to be egalitarian, and being labeled a racist is stigmatizing in many communities," Leitner said.
Instead of wondering whether receiving a diagnosis is stigmatizing or relieving for the patient, we need to reflect on the much larger ethical, legal and social consequences of creating (or deleting) diagnoses.
This is indisputable, but we might deploy the same reasoning to argue that the power it levies, despite our best efforts, is stigmatizing and that our use of the word ought to be ratcheted down rather than up.
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In most other circumstances, disability is stigmatized.
"Fresh Kills is stigmatized, and that's a real issue," he said.
It is stigmatized and hence poor or no data and whispered discussion.
A tenured professor, he reports that his field of interest is stigmatized.
"In North America, mental health is stigmatized," Sukhai says.
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