demonize

“What really stands out more than any other civil rights division is how much they demonize and personalize,” said Christy Lopez, a former attorney in the division who is now a professor at Georgetown Law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

“We have decided, for no particular reason other than what I think is a drafting error, to demonize people who want to build rental housing for folks,” Mr. Schatz said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

He also knows how to be comfortable in that space, and still find ways to humanize himself to an audience trying desperately to demonize him.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

The term carried an especially chilling, historical weight at a conference held in Germany; Nazis had used it in their aggressive propaganda campaign against Jews, Communists and others the government wanted to demonize.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

His choices free or fetter, elevate or debase, deify or demonize his humanity.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Except for Iran, of course, which he alternately bombs, demonizes and flatters.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Real-estate groups said the plan unfairly demonizes their industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The report recommends that students acknowledge their differences more openly — and urges school administrators to help them overcome black-and-white thinking that demonizes other viewpoints.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Art habitually heightens, elides, romanticizes, demonizes, cheats and lies to get what it wants, but we tend to believe it when the art, as here, is good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

In it, Agrawal demonizes the figure of the she-wolf, illustrating a female reporter as a lupine menace sent to consume the visionary female businesswoman.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019

Although politics in Israel is at least as polarized as in the U.S., he hasn’t demonized the other side and has mostly avoided personal attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

There are some disturbing exceptions to this general profile, to be sure, but for the most part, these editors do not fit the demonized caricature presented by the website’s loudest critics.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025

Queer and drag culture have come into mainstream pop and youth culture on the one hand, but remain demonized on the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

No one mentioned the common names for these ingredients: seaweed, vitamin B2, and MSG, a common amino acid that has been demonized because it's popular in Asian food.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025

The local press in Monroe County and Mobile had demonized Walter and had defiantly maintained that his conviction was reliable and his execution necessary.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

You can empathize with your friend without demonizing your own position or patronizing her by saying everything will be OK.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026

“Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens,” the NRA retorted, to Essayli.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

It blasted his rant as “dangerous and wrong” on social media, adding that “responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

“Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens,” the association said in a statement on X.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2026

“Why are we demonizing this man for speaking his mind?”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro