Sentence examples for socially dead from inspiring English sources

Parents are encouraged to discount such children as socially dead (Sweeting and Gilhooly 1997), as non-existent in social terms, and to wait patiently for the day of their biological death.

To tenants doormen are "socially dead".

As an "outsider," "marginal individual," or "socially dead person" in the society where he was enslaved, his rights to participate in political decision making and other social activities were fewer than those enjoyed by his owner.

On the whole, they did not succumb to the requirement to become socially dead, certainly not completely, though many thousands did.

Anyone who was overweight or balding, I thought, was socially dead on arrival.

Soon I'll be 30 and then I might as well be (socially) dead.

The big socially engaged novel was dead, he declared, killed off by TV.

Few of them ever made any money out of it, & on the whole they were a dead weight socially.

Now they particularly the young and well educated say that Paris is dead culturally, socially and economically and that London is where all the action is.

To Chinese youth who came of age in an era of breakneck economic growth orchestrated by the one-party system, serious opposition to the government is seen as a dead-end, both socially and professionally.

Elephants are very socially complex animals, and they mourn their dead.