A symbol of disgrace or infamy

Usage examples of stigma.

I want to take a moment here to respond to the other common concern voiced by my female patients over the years: Second only to cleanliness, many women are resistant to the thought of penetrating their partners due to an odd societal stigma that equates anal stimulation with homosexuality and, hence, emasculation.

Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather!

Sprengel has shown, and as I can confirm, either the anthers burst before the stigma is ready for fertilisation, or the stigma is ready before the pollen of that flower is ready, so that these plants have in fact separated sexes, and must habitually be crossed.

The seed organs are curious, the stigma being foot-stalked, peltate, and placed between and above the anthers.

It was still reddened by the marks of my fingers, but beneath, on her wrist, there was the stigmata, the scab, the Mark.

Ministry, Spontoon having been technically disqualified because of a strange hysterical stigma, shaped like the ace of spades and nearly the same color, which would appear on his left cheek at moments of high stress, accompanied by severe migraine.

Neither had ever recovered from the stigma of alleged unchastity, which meant they clung together and led very sequestered lives.

Here was justification for Jane if Larry could throw the stigma from Verril to Vincent.

I was put in that class in order to correct what was considered a stigma and an obstacle to the process of Americanization, which the elementary-school teachers of that era were as much expected to further as they were to make us literate and numerate.

Even if Batu did not perish during the slaughter, the stigma of losing an entire army would destroy his career.

However that may be, the stigma, merited or unmerited, had become so firmly branded upon Celestina that it could not be effaced.

I have told you of the kind intentions of my mother to redeem one of her children, at least, from stigma which weighed upon us all, and the birth of a second son enabled her to effect this charitable purpose, without attracting attention.

Jessica is beautiful and lacks all the stigmata associated by Elizabethan audiences with Jews.

Synod and the Prophet himself, so why must he and Manak bear the stigma of failure?

It was a serious political mistake, to bring the name of God into that debate, for it touched everything that Sabian had said with the stigma of reaction.