The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word OSTRACISED
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More clues leading to the result OSTRACISED
- Banished old vehicles coming up on off side?
- Socrates did, endlessly shivering out in the cold
- Exiled sailor found going round islands
- Nearly all bigotry, regardless of masses, edited or cut
- Cost raised after Charlie’s replaced, banished from company
- Swimming across tide, separated from everyone else
- Escort said to be working in Coventry
- Aids sector wrongly excluded from society
- Unusually erotic ads about condoms finally banned
- Shunned escort, said to be upset
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The straight part
We know that "Banished" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case banished = ostracised.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OSTRACISED mean?
OSTRACISED verb- To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- Banished by ostracism.