Ostracize
verb
To exclude someone from a society or group.
She was ostracized by her colleagues for refusing to play by the rules
Often appears as...
- ostracize from society
- ostracize from a group
verb
To banish or send away.
The dictator ostracized anyone who opposed him
Often appears as...
- ostracize from the country
- ostracize for political reasons
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Disapproving
verb
To deliberately avoid or ignore.
Everyone seemed to ostracize him after the scandal broke
Often appears as...
- ostracize after a scandal
- ostracize due to rumor
verb
To exclude someone from a society or group.
She was ostracized by her colleagues for refusing to play by the rules
Often appears as...
- ostracize from society
- ostracize from a group
verb
To banish or send away.
The dictator ostracized anyone who opposed him
Often appears as...
- ostracize from the country
- ostracize for political reasons
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To deliberately avoid or ignore.
Everyone seemed to ostracize him after the scandal broke
Often appears as...
- ostracize after a scandal
- ostracize due to rumor
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Social Rejection
Ostracize often involves a group collectively avoiding someone, not just one person's action.
After the scandal, the club members chose to ostracize him.
Pro Tip 2/3Lasting Effect
Being ostracized can have a long-term impact on someone's social standing and mental health.
Ostracized from her peers, she felt lonely for years.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Only Physical
Ostracization doesn't always mean physical separation; it can be a silent treatment within the same space.
He was present yet ostracized during meetings.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Rejection
Ostracize often involves a group collectively avoiding someone, not just one person's action.
After the scandal, the club members chose to ostracize him.
Pro Tip 2/3Lasting Effect
Being ostracized can have a long-term impact on someone's social standing and mental health.
Ostracized from her peers, she felt lonely for years.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Only Physical
Ostracization doesn't always mean physical separation; it can be a silent treatment within the same space.
He was present yet ostracized during meetings.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Rejection
Ostracize often involves a group collectively avoiding someone, not just one person's action.
After the scandal, the club members chose to ostracize him.
Pro Tip 2/3Lasting Effect
Being ostracized can have a long-term impact on someone's social standing and mental health.
Ostracized from her peers, she felt lonely for years.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Only Physical
Ostracization doesn't always mean physical separation; it can be a silent treatment within the same space.
He was present yet ostracized during meetings.
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How to speak up for...
But sometimes we're too weak. That's what happened with my wife and I. And this range of acceptable behaviors -- when we stay within our range, we're rewarded. When we step outside that range, we get punished in a variety of ways. We get dismissed or demeaned or even ostracized. Or we lose that raise or that promotion or that deal.
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"Where Love Is Illegal":...
So I documented these stories of survival of you know, people who had survived persecution from around the world, people who have survived imprisonment and violent attack, and attempted murder, and rape, people who had been ostracized by their family members, who've fled their countries,
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Our story of rape and...
Breaking your silence is never easy, and depending on where you are in the world, it can even be deadly to speak out about rape. I realize that even the most traumatic event of my life is still a testament to my privilege, because I can talk about it without getting ostracized,
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Einstein's Escape from...
and interpret things as his reason for being, as his reason for existing. And he faced huge adversity in doing so. These tragedies and relationships that disintegrated, and governments that didn't support him or ostracized him as a Jew, that forced him out of the country.
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Images of strength and...
birthing canal that happens to women after prolonged labor and can render her incontinent we're in suffering fistula in communities are often ostracized but Esther has incorporated herself back into the community and is an active member with outreach programs
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How to be an upstander...
we are likely to lose the camaraderie of our coworkers. Disbelieved, ostracized, faced with under-the-radar bullying. You know the kind when you walk into a room and everyone stops talking? We It's not my responsibility to say anything.
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She Summited Each...
fighting for other people's homes. Whether that was for women who were severely abused, or ostracized, or for indigenous people living under crazy regimes, or refugees without a nation. And it was my one particular friendship
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"Where Love Is Illegal":...
now a sanctuary until the crowd dispersed. But, his suffering didn't end there. They went back to their families, who, in turn, ostracized them. Buje fell ill, and a relative came to him and said, "God should take your life
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When technology can read...
Think about it. In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a politically dissident thought? Or a creative one? I worry that people will self-censor in fear of being ostracized by society,
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How I learned to read --...
I picked up a book, and it was the most agonizing time of my life, trying to learn how to read, the ostracizing from my family, the homeys. It was rough, man.
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How to speak up for...
But sometimes we're too weak. That's what happened with my wife and I. And this range of acceptable behaviors -- when we stay within our range, we're rewarded. When we step outside that range, we get punished in a variety of ways. We get dismissed or demeaned or even ostracized. Or we lose that raise or that promotion or that deal.
Video examples
"Where Love Is Illegal":...
So I documented these stories of survival of you know, people who had survived persecution from around the world, people who have survived imprisonment and violent attack, and attempted murder, and rape, people who had been ostracized by their family members, who've fled their countries,
Video examples
Our story of rape and...
Breaking your silence is never easy, and depending on where you are in the world, it can even be deadly to speak out about rape. I realize that even the most traumatic event of my life is still a testament to my privilege, because I can talk about it without getting ostracized,
Video examples
Einstein's Escape from...
and interpret things as his reason for being, as his reason for existing. And he faced huge adversity in doing so. These tragedies and relationships that disintegrated, and governments that didn't support him or ostracized him as a Jew, that forced him out of the country.
Video examples
Images of strength and...
birthing canal that happens to women after prolonged labor and can render her incontinent we're in suffering fistula in communities are often ostracized but Esther has incorporated herself back into the community and is an active member with outreach programs
Video examples
How to be an upstander...
we are likely to lose the camaraderie of our coworkers. Disbelieved, ostracized, faced with under-the-radar bullying. You know the kind when you walk into a room and everyone stops talking? We It's not my responsibility to say anything.
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She Summited Each...
fighting for other people's homes. Whether that was for women who were severely abused, or ostracized, or for indigenous people living under crazy regimes, or refugees without a nation. And it was my one particular friendship
Video examples
"Where Love Is Illegal":...
now a sanctuary until the crowd dispersed. But, his suffering didn't end there. They went back to their families, who, in turn, ostracized them. Buje fell ill, and a relative came to him and said, "God should take your life
Video examples
When technology can read...
Think about it. In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a politically dissident thought? Or a creative one? I worry that people will self-censor in fear of being ostracized by society,
Video examples
How I learned to read --...
I picked up a book, and it was the most agonizing time of my life, trying to learn how to read, the ostracizing from my family, the homeys. It was rough, man.
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Yemi Osinbajo
Nigerian Politician
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
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Joel Grey
American Actor
I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
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Sarah Ferguson
English Royalty
I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
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Kenya Barris
American Producer
I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.
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Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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Ian Somerhalder
American Actor
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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Israel Houghton
American Musician
The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.
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Terry Sanford
American Politician
I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
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Claudette Colvin
American Activist
I was ostracized by my community.
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Yemi Osinbajo
Nigerian Politician
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
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Joel Grey
American Actor
I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
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Sarah Ferguson
English Royalty
I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
Quote examples
Kenya Barris
American Producer
I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.
Quote examples
Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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Ian Somerhalder
American Actor
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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Israel Houghton
American Musician
The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.
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Terry Sanford
American Politician
I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
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Claudette Colvin
American Activist
I was ostracized by my community.
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