0 past simple and past 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.
Tariff reformers demonized free trade as a policy favouring narrow financial interests above producers.
The characters or relationships thus take on these associations, which come with specific valuations along a scale of positive to negative, lionized to demonized.
Seen in the light of this study, much fledgling eco-criticism begins to take on the colours of exclusive, single-issue politics : the rural idealized and the urban demonized.
Herodotus began that process when he demonized some foreign tribes while mythologizing others.
Vindiciae, contra tyrannos is not an appeal to what adversaries demonized as the ' many-headed monster ' to take up arms against the ruler deemed tyrannical.
He was idolized and demonized as few other rulers have been, and our image of his character is confused by the hatred or goodwill of the parties involved.
Some members emigrated, and those who remained were endiablados, demonized.
While the media demonized him for his challenge of the status quo, it also capitalized on the entertainment he offered with his non-conformist attitude.
