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Ostracize meaning
To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. | To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
Example sentences (13)
At conferences and official N.A.R. gatherings, she said, she saw Mr. Parcell ostracize female Realtors who failed to flatter him — behavior he did not repeat with men.
Foolish companies who ostracize a large portion of their consumers when there are plenty of other companies with the same product.
Unfortunately, many international players do not share commonality, and either out of ignorance or prejudice, they ostracize China during its period of trial and tribulation.
At the moment – in light of the reasonably successful efforts of Seoul and Washington to maintain close coordination despite significant differences over North Korea policy – it serves North Korea’s purposes to ostracize the South.
Israel must not be allowed to ostracize the world’s most ancient Christian community from their ancestral land so that it may score a few points in its deeply disturbing drive for racial supremacy.
Indeed, Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out orthodox Christianity from a university that was founded to train ministers in the Puritan tradition.
The UN, international organizations and stakeholders may ostracize the government because this callous behaviour by President Bio’s men, contravenes civility and the Geneva Convention on the treatment of diplomats.
What used to ostracize Korean Americans has now become trendy, which is annoying in some ways, but exciting that the western world is finally appreciating Korean food.
With time you begin to ostracize yourself from your friends and your circle becomes smaller.
In 442 BC, the Athenian public voted to ostracize Thucydides from the city for 10 years and Pericles was once again the unchallenged ruler of the Athenian political arena.
The local children ostracize her because her father was a thief and a wife-beater.
Those who contract such alliances, as also their offspring, the divine laws not only ostracize but declare accursed, while the civil laws brand them as infamous and deprive them of hereditary rights.
Unsavory, harmful and vicious tactics have been employed—including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths.