demonized
Meaning
of Demonize
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
Because actually there is a myth that Africans know their culture, but a lot has been demonized because of colonialism, and there’s a lot that’s misunderstood because of the structures of colonialism — Christianity, Islam, etc. — that followed.
As she points out, the oft cited “healthy user bias” is less relevant to this study because protein hasn’t been demonized such that people who eat more protein would be expected to have unhealthy lifestyle habits.
Candidate Bush deleted a page on her campaign website, in which she wrote (we thank Jewish Insider for the save – DI) that her support for BDS had been mischaracterized and demonized by her opponents.
Daftary, 2007, p. 402. In popular culture details The Hashashin were part of Medieval culture, and were either demonized or romanticized.
However, many adherents of the approach reject the use of the word secular as obfuscating and confusing, and consider that the term secular humanism has been "demonized by the religious right..
He would be attacked and demonized by many of his former friends.