ostracizing
Meaning
of Ostracize
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Political irrationalism which infests, deforms and destroys our lives, is - in the strictly psychiatric sense - a perversion of social life, caused by the ostracizing of the natural life functions and by their exclusion from the determination of social life.
Even the most "Rational" people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
And in doing so they’ve become more Pharisaical than the Pharisees of Jesus’ time ever hoped to be - deplatforming, ending careers, bludgeoning and ostracizing people for failing to toe the politically correct line in some way.
Occasionally when intermarriage occurs, there is dire consequence like ostracizing, making the individual an outcast, and sometimes tribal war and death.
Eight months in, maybe it’s time to add ostracizing those friends and relatives who refuse to act responsibly, rather than tolerating them and hoping they don’t infect us.
“We’re ostracizing children, we’re telling children: ‘You’ve got to be afraid of the Chinese!’