to brand
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4.1
- verb
- /brænd/
:
tildar de
- After the scandal, many were quick to brand her as dishonest without knowing all the facts.
- branded as racist
- branded as communist
And that may mean that people brand you as holding a grudge.
- And that may mean that people brand you as holding a grudge.
- I mean he's been branded like the far right winger.
- Do you think there's some strategic, very high level attack on anyone they brand as right?
- So you oppose and condemn the far right, which is the exact label that you were branded.
- You don't want to be a troublesome writer that even has a whiff of being difficult because once you're branded difficult, that's hard stench to get off.
- The thought of being thought of as difficult or being branded as difficult can be very destabilizing for survivors of narcissistic abuse.
- You know, I don't want to brand myself, but have an ADHD, not many.
Examples
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Yeah, and to brand us as dorks for the next four years!
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Do you really know why you want to brand me like a cow?
Fiction book (1993) -
I will be branded with this mistake for the rest of my life.
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And that may mean that people brand you as holding a grudge.
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Because you've been branded as the kid, not as the person who gives advice.
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We'll be branded as traitors; the gravest capital crime.
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Even refugees who return to majority areas are unwelcome, branded as cowards who fled in times of danger.
Academic text (1998) -
Leading Democrats denounced them as frauds and ignoramuses and sought to brand them as racists.
Academic text (2011) -
Nongovernmental organizations are branded "foreign agents," and journalists and foreign diplomats are constantly harassed and monitored.
Academic text (2015) -
Once wounded in a duel, his authoritarian style caused his opponents, the Whigs, to brand him a dictator.
Synonyms
115
6.8
Publicly criticize someone or something strongly
44
8.4
Publicly accuse someone so people think badly of them
24
7.5
Treat someone as shameful and not worthy of respect
18
6.8
To say false things about someone that harm their good name
3
6.0
Damage the respect and good opinion people have of someone or something
1
6.3
Publicly say which people or groups did something wrong so others will say bad things about them
Antonyms
Compounds
33
1.6
A name a company gives to a product or service to show it is different from others
- Specialized
3
4.2
A medicine sold under a company's name that only that company sells
- Jargon
1
4.5
A situation where people mistake one brand for another because of similar logo or packaging
How Stigmatizing
Surface Forms
Etymology
To brand someone as bad comes from the idea of giving a burned mark that stays with a person, so to be 'branded' is to get a public, often negative, label. That's why the verb now means to give someone a lasting bad name.