How to Use demonize in a Sentence

demonize

verb
Definition of demonizenext
  • In other words, the goal is to avoid unfairly demonizing all parabens.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement He has been demonized by his enemies, mostly those on the right.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • You can almost be demonized for it because under the church environment—I’m a preacher’s kid–it’s not talked about.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 Oct. 2024
  • If that was 15 years ago, I’m dismayed by some of the ways we are demonized now.
    — Bobi Conn, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Schmid thinks stan culture need not be demonized, but used as a force for good.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • Their opponents had to be demonized on electoral hustings and on the floors of the House and Senate.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
  • Clark was demonized in the press and imprisoned for murder.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This flood of attention feels to him like one more way to demonize Black people and convey the sense that nothing has changed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Felicia: Maybe because the Supreme Court and others on the right have managed to demonize unions.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • This prediction came when jazz was being demonized by some, so was rather shocking at the time.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • She was demonized by left-wing pundits and harassed by activists who even swarmed her in a bathroom.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And the penalty is compounded when they are demonized as bad parents and kept from their children.
    — CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Donald Trump, Fox News, and the other organs in the right-wing universe are holding up Berliner’s 3,500-word piece to demonize the outlet.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But Pixar's latest movie is proving that isn't something to demonize.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And, from that, came a week of Amanda being demonized by the media, which was absolutely a breach of human rights.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • She was demonized as crazy and out of control where she had once been admired, even idolized, for her nonconformist views.
    — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • From the time Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015, some in the media have viciously demonized him.
    — Jimmy Conner, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • This isn’t an issue of Dad’s demand, but of dealing with a mind-set that demonizes, demeans and subjugates half the human race.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The apparent goal of the series was to avoid further demonizing the Branch Davidians, which the news media did plenty of at the time.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • While the film shows these changes aren't something to demonize, some parents found issue with the topic being brought into a children's movie.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
  • And stop demonizing @SenTuberville for calling you out.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This lawsuit doesn’t give any of us an excuse to demonize her because of her weight; that would be doing the exact violence she’s accused of.
    — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The political sport of demonizing those who come here for a better life is appalling.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
  • And because of the diet industry’s tendency to demonize the whole group, sometimes the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 26 July 2022
  • The crowd cheered as Trump — who has a history of demonizing immigrants — told supporters White didn’t care for that plan.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
  • Tax-and-spend progressives continue to demonize one of the main drivers of the state’s economic success.
    — Jonathan Williams, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Leave it to the former President to demonize his political opponents in the wake of an act of madness.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Delaporte, the member of Parliament who co-sponsored the bill, said its goal is not to judge or demonize influencers.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • After he was demonized in the press, Reubens spent the rest of the ‘90s quietly appearing in various supporting roles.
    — Nicholas Bell, Spin, 7 Aug. 2023
  • With the Democrats facing a dire outlook in the midterm elections, the smartest political move for Biden would have been to demonize the Republicans as the armed-to-the-teeth party beholden to the gun lobby.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 June 2022

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