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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
demonise .
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Examples
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A spate of deaths among heroin users whose drugs were contaminated with anthrax has highlighted how addicts are "demonised" and struggle to get treatment, according to experts.
Anthrax deaths expose addicts' plight Jack Saville 2010
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His comment on losing his job was "life's not fair", adding that he had been "demonised" in the US and that BP had been a model corporate citizen in its handling of the disaster.
Tony Hayward's exit is not enough - BP needs root-and-branch reforms 2010
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It is the fact that they are, indeed, being "demonised" for daring to express banned viewpoints on key issues that engenders their sense that ... "oh well, Im portrayed as holding the same views as the BNP, so I might as well vote for them!"
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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I think I've dealt with her accusation that Abu Qatada has been "demonised" and "mythologised".
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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I think I've dealt with her accusation that Abu Qatada has been "demonised" and "mythologised".
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Its not the BNP who are being "demonised", but people who do not share those views, yet have no representation in the "legitimate" parties and, moreover, are tarred with the same "racist" brush for daring to question the elitist "multiculturalist" trope.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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In fact, MPACUK regularly complains that Muslims are being "demonised" exactly that phrase.
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In fact, MPACUK regularly complains that Muslims are being "demonised" exactly that phrase.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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While most of the world regards Saddam as a brutal dictator who gassed entire villages, launched wars that cost millions of lives and murdered thousands of political opponents, Ramsey Clark, a former US Attorney General, said he had been unfairly "demonised" by his captors.
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MPs that for years traditional healers were "demonised" as witchdoctors.
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