0 present participle of demonize
1 to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil:
The Nazis used racist propaganda in an attempt to demonize the Jews.
As this study comprehensively demonstrates, such engagement, albeit conceptual, was never straightforwardly demonizing or static.
Demonizing and denying the humanity of the other is described as a major defense mechanism used by each side to justify aggression against the other.
I enjoyed the way he presents the various positions of many historical figures and movements in relatively sympathetic terms, rather than demonizing or deifying these actors.
This mixed approach is a way to avoid romanticizing or demonizing one side or another in the eighteenth-century confrontation, and capture the duality of law in its full complexity.
Even so, demonizing competition, as some of you are doing, is really no way to serve the public.
Some have recommended solutions such as an all-round reduction of working hours with full compensation for employees, in other words demonizing flexibility and the new organization of work!
The tone in which the attributes of these children are described has been characterized as demonizing.
This is likely intended to avoid demonizing either side as being the aggressor.
