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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
demonize .
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Examples
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We have only Donald Rumsfeld demonizing disagreement, the way Neville Chamberlain demonized Winston Churchill.
Keith Olbermann channels Edward R. Murrow cavalaxis 2006
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But the rest of his rant is lifted from another angry website, a website where extra credit is given for using the word demonized seven times in fifty words.
Hey, James Wolcott called me a peeing intellectual nobility. Ann Althouse 2008
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We have only Donald Rumsfeld demonizing disagreement, the way Neville Chamberlain demonized Winston Churchill.
Archive 2006-09-01 cavalaxis 2006
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To whine about being demonized is a cop-out on the scale of Hillary Clinton complaining about the "vast right-wing conspiracy."
October 2005 2005
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(Consider even that word, "demonized" - to transform into a demon, something not human.)
WordPress.com News 2009
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By logic, we should embrace them, but currently “deniers” of global warming have become demonized, which is a sign that global warming has become slightly religious.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Climate Science Heretics 2009
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There's no doubt that Hoffman behaved badly ... but she's been thoroughly demonized, which is a shame.
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The idea of demonic possession by which a man becomes demonized, that is possessed or controlled by a demon, was present in many ancient ethnic religions, and in fact it is found in one form or another wherever there is a belief in the existence of demons, and that is practically everywhere (cf. DEMONOLOGY).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Besides, "it's part of our political process for people to express ... whatever they feel" without being "demonized," said Cornyn.
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In 1996, for example, a federal judge moved the Oklahoma City bombing case to Denver, saying defendants Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols had been "demonized" in the media.
Federal authorities plan to move trial of Tucson shooting suspect Jerry Markon 2011
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