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• The stigma of the Mimulus is bilamellate.From the entry bilamellate
• 'Smuggling was a way of life here, with no stigma attached,' David explained.2026 June 24, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life on the borderline”, in RAIL, number 1064, page 68. From the entry broom
• Frustratingly, attaching a stigma to perfectly reasonable things makes people feel attacked when they publicly do them.2024 May 11, Isabella Sylvester, “18 Things Society Has Demonized That Should Be Considered Normal”, in MSN, archived from the original on…. From the entry demonize
• Weight stigma often stems from an idea that patients are at fault for their body size.2023 June 2, H Conley, “Studies show top surgery is safe for fat patients, but some surgeons still mandate weight loss”, in STAT. From the entry stem
• First of all, the 'greenhorn' stigma of piercing has worn off.1976, Jewelers' Circular/Keystone, volume 147, numbers 1-6, page 40. From the entry multiple
• The spokesman at the time said UAP was preferred over UFO because of the stigma surrounding the latter term.2020, Jordan Culver, Adrianna Rodriguez, “Pentagon declassifies 3 leaked US Navy UFO videos”, in USA Today. From the entry UAP
• “The stigma and taboos around talking about death have been way reduced,” Cake’s co-founder Suelin Chen, 38, said.2020 July 16, Jennifer Miller, “Boom Time for Death Planning”, in The New York Times. From the entry deathfluencer
• For an increasing number of couples, "sleep divorce" is the clear solution - although it sometimes carries a stigma.2015 June 25, Hallie Jackson, “Snooze-Deprived Couples Rest Easy After 'Sleep Divorce'”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 29 Apr…. From the entry sleep divorce
• We had long since gotten over any shyness or embarrassment with the pervert's row stigma of strip club seating.2013, David S. Henderson, The Worth of Things. From the entry pervert's row
• The stigma that surrounds a safety office and its staff is often that of naysayers or un-cool nerds.2012 January 1, anonymous author, “Safety Culture”, in Wingman, page 32. From the entry queep
• He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma."2011, M. P. Rogers, Oona Paraselene, page 140. From the entry moonling
• The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism. From the entry rehabilitable
• The processes of categorization, stereotyping, discrimination, and self-fulfilling prophecy can also apply to stigmas based on blemishes of individual character.2003, Todd F. Heatherton, The Social Psychology of Stigma, page 103. From the entry blemish
• The social stigma once attached to onlyhood is gone."1989, Cosmopolitan - Volume 207. From the entry onlyhood
• To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.1984, Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10. From the entry pogey
• Ovary 2-celled; style short, thick, sublate; stigma large, peltate.1961, Gazetteer of Bombay State: Miscellaneous plants, page 219. From the entry sublate
• This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, page 105. From the entry beyond the pale
• To prevent Fara registration, and the stigma and scrutiny associated with it, the legal advisers suggested channeling funds through a third-party American nonprofit.2024 August 17, Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, “Israel feared legal trouble over US advocacy efforts, leaked files suggest”, in The Guardian. From the entry Fara
• I take the knife and slit the smaller stems free, leaving the stigma alone, dancing melancholically in the wake of my blade.2023, K Patrick, Mrs S, 4th Estate, page 136. From the entry melancholically
• But in the murky underground of Singapore’s Thai disco (siam dius) scene, the generalisation of Thai disco girls (siam bus) often carries a certain stigma.2017 August 18, Cheryl Chiew, “Singaporean Girls Speak Their Minds About Local Men Who Date Thai Disco Girls”, in ZULA (blog), Singapore…. From the entry siam diu
• I want to buy adult diapers and rebrand them as professional gaming pants, the stigma will be gone and I'll be rich.2017 May 23, @TisWizcon, Twitter. From the entry gaming pants
• To remove any dreaded exercise stigma, finding forms of exercise that are fun is a way to feed two birds with one scone.2016, Mark Reinfeld, Healing the Vegan Way, page xviii. From the entry feed two birds with one scone
• Inherent in all artistic activity, these dialogical mechanisms become particularly striking in outsider art and can serve as a basis for fighting stigma.2015, Ekaterina Sukhanova, Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry outsider art
• It was made with a local and very restricted audience in mind, which did not attach a stigma to an earringed man.2013, Andreas J. M. Kropp, “Royal portraits”, in Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 bc–ad 100, Oxford University Press…. From the entry earringed
• Some degree of autogamy is indicated by the enclosure of the two pairs of fertile stamens within the calyx, supertending the short post-like stigma.2005, Richard O'donnell, Rebecca W Dolan, A NEW SPECIES OF STREPTANTHUS (BRASSICACEAE) FROM THREE PEAKS IN LAKE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. From the entry supertend
• In business, due to the stigma of alcoholism, enablers have their jobs and incomes at stake if their boss's secret is uncovered.2004, Doug Thorburn, How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics, page 34. From the entry enabler
• National Socialism had been a stigma.1988, William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Volume II: Alone 1932-1940, page 63. From the entry fanfaronade
• The short answer would be that both bear the customary stigmata of avant-garde prose: typographical oddity, under-punctuation, a liberal sprinkling of the four-letter words.1958 March 9, Rayner Heppenstall, “Tramp-Reality”, in The Observer, number 8,697, London, page 17. From the entry under-punctuation
• The qualities which make a man a saint—faith, an indomitable will, a passion for self-sacrifice—are not those that extrinsicate themselves in striking bodily stigmata.1926, Aldous Huxley, “Two Pictures of Gandhi”, in The Bookman: A Literary Journal, volume 63, page 565. From the entry extrinsicate
• It happening that the middle parters are mostly foppish the stigma of foppishness usually goes with the practice even when it is not merited.1901, Medical Council, volume 6, page 425. From the entry parter
• White collar crime “isn’t thought of as threatening in the same way as street crime, and high-status white offenders are not as burdened by criminal stigma,” Western said.2024 December 15, Kaan Ozcan and Sabrina Clay, “These convicted felons say if Trump can be elected president they shouldn’t face a stigma…. From the entry crime
• If I'd been diagnosed ten years ago, I'd definitely have been frightened to tell anyone, because I've internalized as much antiautistic stigma as the next person.2018, Mike Jung, “I Hate To Interrupt This Conversation About Mental Illness, But Guess What–I'm Autistic”, in Kelly Jensen, editor…. From the entry antiautistic
• Syed, along with many of her American Muslim friends and Islamic-rights advocates, is all too familiar with what many refer to as the stigma of traveling while Muslim.2016 November 7, Michael T. Luongo, “Traveling While Muslim Complicates Air Travel”, in The New York Times. From the entry while
• But difference is also a potential fault line at the heart of the human psyche – and one along which prejudice, stigma, projection and xenocidal impulses can flow.2008, David Tuckett, Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches. From the entry xenocidal
• The business was ailing, however, because of the stigma of having been made illegal in its own homestate, so the view from Orange, Texas, was not encouraging.1973, Floyd M. Clay, Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol. From the entry homestate

Meaning of stigma

1. noun An indication of infamy or disgrace.
2. noun A permanent identity mark branded, cut or tattooed onto the skin, typically given to slaves, criminals and traitors.
3. noun A negative and often unfair attitude (held by a group or society, to something).

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Questions about stigma in a sentence

How do you use stigma in a sentence?

Stigma is used as a noun. For example: “The stigma of the Mimulus is bilamellate.”

What is a short sentence with stigma?

“National Socialism had been a stigma.”

What does stigma mean?

Stigma means an indication of infamy or disgrace.