Usually means: Portray negatively to provoke disdain.
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  1. demonize: Merriam-Webster
  2. demonize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demonize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demonize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demonize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demonize, demonize: Wordnik
  7. demonize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demonize: Wiktionary
  9. demonize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demonize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Demonize, demonize: Dictionary.com
  12. demonize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Demonize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. demonize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. demonize: Rhymezone
  16. Demonize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. demonize: FreeDictionary.org
  18. demonize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. demonize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (demonize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To turn into a demon.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To describe or represent as evil or diabolic, usually falsely.

Similar:
demonify, dæmonize, demonise, dedemonize, monsterize, daemonize, monstrify, diabolify, monster, devilize, more...

Opposite:
eulogize

Types:
vilify, malign, decry, castigate, berate, condemn, more...

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Similar:
demonify, dæmonize, demonise, dedemonize, monsterize, daemonize, monstrify, diabolify, monster, devilize, more...

Opposite:
eulogize

Types:
vilify, malign, decry, castigate, berate, condemn, more...

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark purple,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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