Synonyms for demonize
de·mo·nize

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1. demonize, demoniseverb

   make into a demon

   "Power had demonized him"

   Synonyms:
   demonise

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1. List of paraphrases for "demonize":

   demonise, vilify

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1. Jonathan Fahey:

   It's kind of interesting how he's trying to walk this back now because he's running for election, trying to center himself to the middle, he was associated with groups, liked tweets and other stuff to show that he wanted ICE abolished and it's really just anti-ICE. He and others have been on this crusade to just take down ICE, demonize ICE agents in every single respect by calling them racists, delegitimizing what they're doing, and treating them like they're doing something heavy-handed, unlawful, when they're simply just doing their job, trying to keep our communities safe and our country safe. … It really is disgraceful.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   You demonize...we call it the wrap-up smear, you smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it and then you write it and say, See, it's reported in the press that this, this, and this... so they have that validation that the press reported the smear and then it's called a wrap-up-smear and the merchandise is the press' report on the smear we made. It's a tactic, and it's self-evident.

3. Mandeep Tiwana:

   Because of the nature of their work in exposing governance failures and grave rights violations several governments have created a bogey to demonize and stigmatize, in public eyes, NGOs and activists uncovering abuse, questioning the messenger's credentials is a common tactic that helps deviate the argument from the real issues and muddies the public discourse.

4. Job Mavanga:

   Those people didn't deserve to die. It could have been me, or any of us, my girlfriend knows one of the victims. I hope everyone stops blaming the Muslim community because they didn't do this. But people take advantage of situations like this to demonize Muslims.

5. Kyrsten Sinema:

   I pledged to be independent and work with anyone to achieve lasting results. I committed I would not demonize people I disagreed with, engage in name-calling, or get distracted by political drama.