Synonym: blemish, brand, disgrace, slur, stain, tarnish. Similar words: vestigial, investigate, investigator, investigation, paradigm, dogmatic, a young man, pragmatic. Meaning: ['stɪgmə] 
n. 1. the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil 2. a symbol of disgrace or infamy 3. an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod 4. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease.
n. 1. the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil 2. a symbol of disgrace or infamy 3. an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod 4. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease. 
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31. It's all the stigma attached to it and all the things that people have to do to obtain it.
32. Whatever the outcome, he not unnaturally regarded his time in gaol as a stigma, as a stain on his character.
33. As I've always been blonde I forget about the stigma attached to the colour.
34. Morrissey is the martyr - confessing to almost every social stigma in the book and finding pleasure in pain.
35. However, considerably more social stigma is attached to unemployment than to early retirement.
36. Similarly, workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health.
37. In female flowers, the flies are wedged in tightly, the thorax pollen being rubbed off on to the stigma.
38. Initially Karpov was to suffer from the stigma of achieving world championship status without combat against the title holder.
39. For children, being fat carries a stigma that starts early.
40. We attack anti-gay stigma in order to encourage homosexuality to flourish.
41. There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership, too.
42. But if we attack the stigma against unsafe behavior, we might just do the same for that.
43. At first I found the stigma of being unemployed very difficult to cope with.
44. Having won so many times, he places no stigma on stepping away, regrouping, aiming for another race.
45. In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive drove away 60% of my circle of friends.
46. In many countries there is still a strong social stigma attached to homosexuality.
47. Addressing the public stigma of mental illness, which permits the unscrupulous to collude with vulnerable patients, is another.
48. Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled.
49. The leaders of the Majority Socialists regarded the revolutionary legitimation of their authority not as a springboard but as a stigma.
50. As petrol is beating the stigma of carrying lead, so diesel must beat the particulate rap.
51. Although homosexuality is no longer against the law, homosexuals still face a good deal of criticism and stigma.
52. Like men in similar situations, the women stressed the feelings of stigma, shame and humiliation in claiming benefit.
53. For fear of some social stigma or psychological scarring, adopted children were routinely lied to about their beginnings.
54. Once again shame and stigma are being touted as methods of social control.
55. There's no stigma attached to being half-cut on the streets.
56. The perceived social stigma of a tuberculosis diagnosis may be so severe as to cause people to avoid testing or treatment.
57. Pollen must be transferred by hand from one flower to the stigma of another flower on a separate plant.
58. It also risked acquiring the stigma attached to the means-tested Poor Law.
59. There's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum,(http://Sentencedict.com) as if she hasn't a brain between the ears!
60. We have to be absolutely sure that only the pollen we want reaches the stigma.
More similar words: vestigial, investigate, investigator, investigation, paradigm, dogmatic, a young man, pragmatic, tiger, tighten, fatigue, tightly, building materials, stir, stiff, still, instinct, hostile, burst in, stick to, stick out, distinct, testing, plastic, question, justify, testify, justice, artistic, domestic.