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Definition of "ostracised" []

  • Alternative spelling of ostracized. (adjective)

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Use "ostracised" in a sentence
  • "As I've gotten older and learnt more about the personal history behind Mathematics, rather than just the discoveries, I've grown to understand how badly being ostracised from the Mathematical community can hold-back a mathematician's work and that the dearth of great female mathematicians isn't anything to do with the inability of women to do maths and everything to do with so few of them ever being given a chance."
  • "When her own organization, STORM, began to take a more harm-reduction and rights-based approach, she was effectively ostracised from the anti-prostitution movement."
  • "Museveni said Mugabe did not deserve to be "ostracised" or"