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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of destigmatise.

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  • You're right CU - tax being anti-family, but I'm sure the restoration of tax benefit to marriage will be of limited effect; temptations outside of marriage are just too great, people are too promiscuous and divorce is destigmatised totally.

    Featuring Phillipa Newmania 2007

  • Nowadays, our belief is that, what with women in the workforce, singleand unwed parenthood being destigmatised and no societal pressure to get married at all, any idea of pragmatism in wedlock should be outdated.

    2008 June 28 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Nowadays, our belief is that, what with women in the workforce, singleand unwed parenthood being destigmatised and no societal pressure to get married at all, any idea of pragmatism in wedlock should be outdated.

    Marrying For What? « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Nowadays, our belief is that, what with women in the workforce, singleand unwed parenthood being destigmatised and no societal pressure to get married at all, any idea of pragmatism in wedlock should be outdated.

    2008 June « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Aids should be destigmatised and demystified so people can understand and talk about it and be compassionate to those with the disease, Dlamini-Zuma said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Sex work should also be destigmatised and sex workers should not be discriminated against.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • No number of laws would deal with the problem of AIDS until the disease was destigmatised and not discriminated against.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Other factors must be at work; plausible candidates include greater income volatility, legalised gambling, bigger medical bills, increased advertising by lawyers offering to help people in debt, and a cultural shift that has destigmatised bankruptcy.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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