demonizing
present participle ofdemonize
demonize
verb[T]
(UKusuallydemonise)uk/ˈdiː.mə.naɪz/us/ˈdiː.mə.naɪz/totryto make someone or agroupofpeopleseemas if they areevil:
TheNazisusedracistpropagandain anattemptto demonize theJews.
Damaging reputation
- anti-defamation
- aspersion
- besmirch
- black mark
- blacken
- blot
- demonize
- dog
- dragsomeone'sname through the mire/mudidiom
- give a dog a bad nameidiom
- hurl/throw/sling mud atsomeoneidiom
- self-immolation
- show someone in a bad lightidiom
- slander
- slanderer
- slanderous
- slur
- smear
- stab
- stain
Examplesofdemonizing
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As this study comprehensively demonstrates, such engagement, albeit conceptual, was never straightforwardlydemonizingor static.
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Demonizingand denying the humanity of the other is described as a major defense mechanism used by each side to justify aggression against the other.
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I enjoyed the way he presents the various positions of many historical figures and movements in relatively sympathetic terms, rather thandemonizingor deifying these actors.
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This mixed approach is a way to avoid romanticizing ordemonizingone side or another in the eighteenth-century confrontation, and capture the duality of law in its full complexity.
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Even so,demonizingcompetition, as some of you are doing, is really no way to serve the public.
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Some have recommended solutions such as an all-round reduction of working hours with full compensation for employees, in other wordsdemonizingflexibility and the new organization of work!
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The tone in which the attributes of these children are described has been characterized asdemonizing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is likely intended to avoiddemonizingeither side as being the aggressor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Present day artists acknowledge smoking as a health risk, but some want to fight modern, taboo perceptions of tobacco instead ofdemonizingsmoking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The play won praise for being nuanced, and not taking the easy path ofdemonizingthe protagonist.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its an impressive story, showing the damages caused by war without resorting to ideological arguments ordemonizingthe enemy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Often, however, that purpose is to achieve a nation's aims by transferring war guilt,demonizingan enemy, providing an illusion of victory, or preserving friendship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His proposed scheme of thought would include a general theory of conspiracy theories as a guide to assessing their validity, instead of blindlydemonizingthem.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bydemonizingthe many, we cloak the few, and, however unwittingly, ourselves facilitate the existence of evil in the world.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Descriptions of children are frequently highly pejorative anddemonizing.
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