0 past simple and past participle of stigmatize
1 to treat someone or something unfairly by disapproving of him, her, or it:
The very purpose of segregation was to stigmatize people of color -to declare them unfit to share facilities with whites.
Many operations are performed on kids with physical flaws that are clearly stigmatizing, like misshapen breasts or ears that stick way out.
Anybody standing in line can see when they pay with Food Stamps, and it stigmatizes them.
They cited fears they would be stigmatized or that their military careers would be hurt.
Stable sociolinguistic variables are usually associated with the working class and the less educated, are stigmatized, and are often subject to correction in school.
Of course, in many countries of the world the mentally ill are stigmatized and socially excluded.
However, unlike vernacular variants, mildly marked variants demonstrate little or no social stratification and hence are not stigmatized.
This motivates their rejection of both the most stigmatized variants and the most prestigious ones; they are walking the thin, and relatively safe, middle ground.
