to demonize
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- verb
- /ˈdiːməˌnaɪz/
- Literature
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demonizar
- And so for generations now, the media has capitalized off of demonizing them.
- demonize opponents
- demonize others
- demonize enemies
I will never ask you to demonize technology.
- I will never ask you to demonize technology.
- Stop trying to demonize or deify Jordan.
- I hate how people have demonized the phrase stroke his ego.
- Man, they are trying to demonize her, not to mention RFK Junior.
- We have seen social scientists demonize young black men as super predators.
- This was a time of demonising the other.
- Stories about drugs serve as convenient tools to further demonize groups that we don't like.
- Maybe you demonize other family members.
- They've been raised to judge people, demean people, demonize other people.
- It was his job to not implement policies that demonize kids.
- We idolize success, and then we demonize success.
- They've they've demonized just routine police activities.
Examples
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But the obesity epidemic really started as the US government, among others, demonized fat.
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We have seen social scientists demonize young black men as super predators.
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I will never ask you to demonize technology.
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Maybe you demonize other family members.
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And your question is, how much are you willing to demonize another person in order to win your race?
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We can stop demonizing black and brown girls, Black, black and brown children.
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We're certainly not trying to demonize black and Hispanic people.
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I think that these parties are demonizing each other.
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Please, let's not demonize people we don't really know.
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It's unfair to demonize someone just because they have a different opinion.
Synonyms
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To harm someone's reputation so others stop trusting them
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To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
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To say harmful or false things about someone to hurt them
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Treat someone as shameful and not worthy of respect
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Show someone as evil or the cause of problems
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To officially say that something is evil and must be rejected
To show someone as very evil in stories or reports
To make a person or group seem very evil
To say in public that someone or something is evil and should be avoided
Antonyms
How Negative
- Formal
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Demonize comes from the old word demon, which meant an 'evil spirit', plus the ending -ize that makes it a verb. So to demonize someone is to make them seem like an evil or dangerous person, often unfairly.