demonise

Verb

Meaning

make into a demon

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

demonize bash attack blackguard brand abuse bag blast accuse caricature smear blot burlesque blister disparage
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Antonyms

adore honor worship celebrate praise acclaim
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Hypernyms

change alter modify

Anagrams

Desimone

Examples

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. Tony Abbott

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives. Afrika Bambaataa

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance. Tony Judt

When you ask, rightly, why is today's Muslim feeling offended when Ghazni or Ghori are denounced, the answer is because it is instrumentalised to demonise them today. Shashi Tharoor

Power had demonized him Source: Internet

A Hong Kong government spokesman expressed regret the United States continued to "smear and demonise the legitimate rights and duty of our sovereign" to safeguard national security. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

demonifugic demonify demonisation demoniser demonish demonism