stigma

In a sentence

Six example sentences with stigma, each labelled with its topic.

• The stigma around seeing a therapist kept many men from booking a first session, even after friends quietly recommended it.

  Psychology

• In Victorian England bankruptcy carried such a stigma that some families changed their names and moved to another county.

  History

• The stigma of a collapsed company is lighter in Silicon Valley, where investors often treat a founder's failure as useful experience.

  Startups

• The stigma attached to the disease kept patients from telling their families, so the clinic offered evening appointments.

  Medicine

• Economists found that the stigma of unemployment makes some people take a worse job quickly rather than wait for a better one.

  Economics

• The law now seals juvenile records so the stigma of one teenage mistake does not follow a person for life.

  Law

Found in these word lists

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More GMAT words

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