ostracized
past simple and past participle ofostracize
ostracize
verb[T]
(UKusuallyostracise)uk/ˈɒs.trə.saɪz/us/ˈɑː.strə.saɪz/toavoidsomeoneintentionally, or topreventsomeone from takingpartin theactivitiesof agroup:
Hiscolleaguesostracized him after hecriticizedthecompanyinpublic.
Excluding
- acid-free
- apart
- aside
- bar
- barring
- clannish
- count
- discount
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- exclusivity
- freezesomeoneout
- leavesomething/someoneoffsomething
- ostracize
- otherwise
- out of itidiom
- outlier
- overdiscount
- stand-alone
Examplesofostracized
ostracized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Perpetually untrustworthy individuals are identified andostracizedwithin the organization, and in turn the overall security of the organization is maintained.
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Because of this conformist behaviour they were more or lessostracizedsocially by their classmates.
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It is not unusual for people who take advantage of the cooperation or generosity of others to find themselves sociallyostracizedor worse.
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And second, they establish graduated enforcement mechanisms to allow potential defectors to learn about the costs of defection without beingostracized(at least, initially).
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Choosing whom she will marry against her parents' wishes, and expressing women's desire in her poetry, she isostracizedfor violating her family's honor.
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Any temptation to portray this 'enthusiast' as belonging to someostracizedminority is negated by his full participation in the public musical and social culture of the time.
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They were oftenostracizedby their community for having engaged in a relationship with a foreigner - even when often, it appears, it was done against her will.
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There is another important problem, which is how to prevent the sick from beingostracized.
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Frankly, parents have been conditioned by a system which has virtuallyostracizedthem for many years.
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This feeling of the miners, that they are a class apart, segregated, exploited,ostracized, unfortunately, is no transient symptom.
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I remember the time when even so humble a person as a postman wasostracizedand punished for belonging to a political club or for attending a political meeting.
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He was alsoostracizedby many of his neighbors for being zealously antireligious.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She wasostracizedback in grade school for developing at a young age.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As they challenged the taboos and conventional wisdom of the time, wereostracizedby the mass media establishment as "sick comedians".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Furthermore, the physical repercussions of vitriolage often force victims into the fringes of society; victims are perceived as bad omens, and subsequentlyostracized.
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- in-home
- in-home
- inhomogeneous
- inhospitable
- inhospitable environment
- inhospitable terrain
- in-hospital mortality
- in hot pursuit
- in-hot-pursuit
- in hot water
- in-hot-water
- in-hour-of-need
- in-house
- in-house
- in-house expertise
- in-house lawyer
- in-house magazine
- in-house-magazine
- in-house staff
- in-house team
- inhuman
- inhumane
- inhumane conditions
- inhumanely