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Examples of ostracise
ostracise
The European Union, the United States and much of the rich world will ostracise him.
From the economist.com
Her friends ostracise her for writing brutally honest things about them.
From the independent.co.uk
Ostracise parents who push around in prams children old enough to walk.
From the guardian.co.uk
The fiery 44-year-old has been known to ostracise players he fell out with at former clubs.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Today, the surest way to ostracise yourself in a board room is to refuse to talk about football.
From the guardian.co.uk
Why did they ostracise Britain's greatest imperial engineer, the father of the modern superdam?
From the newscientist.com
Don't judge or ostracise those of us who choose not to have kids.
From the nzherald.co.nz
American officials depict the international campaign to ostracise Iran as successful coalition-building.
From the economist.com
For some sceptics of SRI, it makes more sense to try to change a company from within than to ostracise it.
From the economist.com
- Banish: expel from a community or group
- Ostracize: avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"
- Ostracism (Greek: u1F40u03C3u03C4u03C1u03B1u03BAu03B9u03C3u03BCu03CCu03C2, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some instances clearly expressed popular anger at the citizen, ostracism was often used preemptively. It was used as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state or potential tyrant...
- Alternative spelling of ostracize
