Definitions
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- v. To publish the name of (a person or organization that has committed some transgression) so as to single them out for individual blame and censure.
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Examples
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Middle-class parents are wringing their hands, and so is Penelope on the front page of her great newspaper: we set out to name and shame the grinches who stole our Christmas!
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