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How to pronounce stigma in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brand, mark, stain
Type of symbol
Has types demerit, bend sinister, cloven foot, cloven hoof, bar sinister
Derivation stigmatic, stigmatize
Type Words
Type of spiracle
Type Words
Type of defect, blemish, mar
Type Words
Type of reproductive structure

Examples of stigma

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Stigma can mean that friends don't know what to say, so they say nothing at all.
From the dailymail.co.uk
If there is a stigma that big people are lazy, I suggest that it cuts both ways.
From the edeneatseverything.com
Remove the stigma of breaking the buck and you can expect it to be broken a lot.
From the foxbusiness.com
If the strikeout has not entirely lost its stigma, it long ago lost its novelty.
From the signonsandiego.com
Therefore, the need to take a personal day no longer has the stigma it once did.
From the cnn.com
Peipert laments that IUDs suffer from the stigma hanging around since the 1970s.
From the stltoday.com
Obtaining a license is a stigma, implying here that you don't know how to drive.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
I know what it's like to deal with the stigma, the ignorance, and the rejection.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Do you feel that they influence stigma towards those living with mental illness?
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More examples
  • The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
  • Mark: a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis
  • An external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
  • A skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
  • Erving Goffman (11 June 1922u00A0u2013 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-American sociologist and writer, considered "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". In 2007 he was listed by The Times Higher Education Guide as the sixth most-cited author in the humanities and social sciences, behind Anthony Giddens and ahead of Ju00FCrgen Habermas.
  • The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
  • Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, such as the hands & feet. The term originates from the line at the end of Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians where he says, "I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. ...
  • Stigma was an album by EMF. "It's You" was actually called "It's You That Leaves Me Dry" but was re-titled to "It's You" and re-mixed for the single release.
  • Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949) is an American actor. Thomas' most famous role is that of detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice. His first notable roles were in Coonskin and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film Sparkle. ...