What's the difference between ostracized and outcast?

Ostracized


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Ostracize

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (2) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
  • (3) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
  • (4) An attempt is made to reveal the escalation of drug abuse in our community as a public health hazard, to initiate the concept of a team approach as the only way to provide early effective treatment, and also to develop preventive measures as the necessary alternative to ostracism and punishment.
  • (5) While service dogs are known to perform important tasks for people using wheelchairs, such as retrieving dropped items or pulling a wheelchair, they may also serve as an antidote for social ostracism.
  • (6) The social ostracism would be a very big deterrent," she said.
  • (7) They have suffered neglect and even ostracism for too long.
  • (8) Failure to conform to any or all of these constraints may result in professional ostracism or even loss of liberty.
  • (9) Abortion is many times requested not for ethical, economical or medical reasons, but to obey the rules imposed by a society that still ostracizes certain kinds of behavior.
  • (10) The consequences for qualified health professionals are well known: there are professional and personal risks — demotion, reprimand, referral to psychiatrists, pressure to resign, careers halted, victimisation, ostracism, exclusion and bullying, disillusionment, isolation and humiliation.
  • (11) The most frequent responses to AIDS have been scapegoating, resulting in ostracism, stigma, and blame; resignation; use of alternative therapies; political mobilization; and research.
  • (12) There should be clear consequences including professional ostracism for failing to meet these standards."
  • (13) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
  • (14) Right to work” undermines that union power because it allows workers to pay no dues at all, even in unionized workplaces, and face no penalties except being ostracized.
  • (15) Even those who condemn his remarks strike a word of caution over his ostracism.
  • (16) And this week he threw his support behind Riyadh’s diplomatic and commercial ostracism of Qatar , which almost alone among Gulf Arab states has tried to keep on good terms with Iran.
  • (17) Most of it is limited to publicly naming those workers, to ostracize them, and making snide comments.
  • (18) My friends would risk neighbourhood ostracism to protest at the unconstitutionality of Ten Commandments posters on classroom walls.
  • (19) Rejection and ostracism is common; women just have to pick up the pieces and rebuild their and their children's lives and often also rebuild their own communities.
  • (20) Leprosy deformities have been the cause of dehabilitation, destitution and social ostracism.

Outcast


Definition:

  • (a.) Cast out; degraded.
  • (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
  • (n.) A quarrel; a contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (2) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
  • (3) A few floors above Baumanns’ cafe the teenage outcast was studying mass killers and preparing for murder himself, police said.
  • (4) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (5) You become an outcast," said Wada president, John Fahey.
  • (6) M from dominant rats under normal conditions were shown to exhibit higher energy and to possess better respiratory energy regulation than those of "outcast" rats.
  • (7) "They have run out of money, face daily threats to their safety, and are being treated as outcasts for no other crime than losing their men to a vicious war.
  • (8) At Cambridge, Oliver says not entirely jokingly, he felt "outcast and angry"; in his first week there he met Richard Ayoade , later to star in The IT Crowd, and they bonded over "not feeling particularly comfortable about being exposed to the top end of the class system".
  • (9) Community leaders vowed to organise and form a better defence for subsequent nights, helped by members of the Outcast and Dominant Breed motorcycle clubs who lined their bikes up in front of stores.
  • (10) Thousands of children in west Africa have been orphaned by Ebola and are at risk of becoming outcasts from communities frightened of the infectious disease, according to Unicef.
  • (11) The suit alleged that the film portrayed people living in the mountains, who are often of mixed Native American and white heritage and were once known by the derogatory term “Jackson Whites”, as inbred social outcasts.
  • (12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (13) But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.
  • (14) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
  • (15) If you don’t have a job, you are made to feel like an outcast from your community,” Jean-Pierre says.
  • (16) They tell us that the authorities have 86% support, loyalty to Putin is total, [governing party] United Russia enjoys colossal popularity, and the opposition is a bunch of outcasts that can only exist within [downtown Moscow] on Twitter and Facebook and don’t know how to communicate with the people,” Yashin told the Guardian after a campaign stop.
  • (17) Without papers, status or rights, they are outcasts.
  • (18) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (19) They don’t want to be punked out of their own neighbourhood.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greets members of the Outcast motorcycle club before a vigil in Ferguson.
  • (20) His 1964 album Bitter Tears, subtitled Ballads Of The American Indian, included Cash's memorable treatment of Pete LaFarge's Ballad Of Ira Hayes, and was the first of many instances of his willingness to speak up for outcasts and underdogs.

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