Ostracised

Most are against it; only a few are in favour. Still, most go along with it, and only a few resist. Those who do resist are publicly ostracised and discredited.

In the course of the fifth century ten politicians were ostracised, the first being Cleisthenes himself, and the last (417 B.C.) Hyperbolus, who was made a scape-goat for Alcibiades and Nicias, the two rival leaders of the day.

Tom was ostracised.