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Excluded from society
Answer for the clue "Excluded from society ", 10 letters:
ostracized
Word definitions for ostracized in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ostracize \Os"tra*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ostracized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ostracizing .] [Gr. 'ostraki`zein, fr. 'o`strakon a tile, a tablet used in voting, a shell; cf. 'o`streon oyster, 'oste`on bone. Cf. Osseous , Oyster .] (Gr. Antiq.) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 blackball. (gloss-stub en blackball says 'to ostracize') 2 banish by ostracism. v (en-past of: ostracize )
Usage examples of ostracized.
He was hoeing pineapple when he made this decision, and it was only two o'clock in the afternoon, but he dropped his hoe and walked in a kind of glorious daze out to the main highway and on into Kapaa, where the ostracized Hashimoto had a photograph shop and an agency for ships traveling to Japan.
I've been ostracized and I'm not supposed to talk with anyone and no one is supposed .
Not only would he become the laughingstock of town, but he'd also be ostracized from society.
For the moment society discovered his secret, his pride in being a pretzel maker, for God's sake, he would, as Elizabeth predicted, be ostracized forever.
He hadn't been one of those who conspicuously ostracized the Captain, but he rarely had much to say outside his duties anyway.
She was now banned and ostracized from the very society she once dominated through the sheer strength of her personality.
Gregor would be punished and ostracized, and the clone Evangeline would be destroyed—mostly for the crime of having fooled them all for so long.
Much as he did not want to become involved, he wanted to see her ostracized even less.
It was obvious from his question that he was unaware she was already ostracized by most of their peers.
This was so unlike the resilient Todd she'd always known, but if he felt himself ostracized, perhaps he didn't wish her contaminated by his disgrace.
Not wishing to remind the Weyrleaders that they had ostracized him at that point in time, Robinton held up his glass, looking plaintively at the wineskin hanging on Lessa's chair.
Then, as he did with all the Japanese who had ostracized him, he added brutally, "You will marry the girl and you will never return to Japan.
She would be ostracized from polite society, and the thought of it made her go cold, but what did that mean out here?
If for that, for loving him, she was ostracized, then she counted society well lost.
Jessie's death and the ensuing investigation, and the way he'd been ostracized by both family and friends, had hardened him.