Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling stigmatize English)
WordNet
v. to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, brand, denounce, mark]
mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress" [syn: stigmatize]
Usage examples of "stigmatise".
Private Citizen Heat entered the street, manoeuvring in a way which in a member of the criminal classes would have been stigmatised as slinking.
Quite independent of their host for existence, these molluscs are not to be stigmatised as parasites, though the individual spur to which each is attached is invariably destroyed by the union, merely sufficient remaining for the support of the intruder.
Board in pressing on us at such a time what I have no hesitation in stigmatising as a rash proposal.
He could not but expect, that, in stigmatising with contempt and ridicule so many persons by name, some of them would retaliate.
Certainly, if Branicki had killed him he would have been stigmatised as an assassin, for though Tomatis had a sword the Polish officer's servants would never have allowed him to draw it, nevertheless I could not help thinking that Tomatis should have tried to take the servant's life, even at the risk of his own.
His whole career, as long as I had known him, had been dotted with little eccentricities of a type which an unfeeling world generally stigmatises as shady.