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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonise.

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Examples

  • "demonises" American farmers and a system that feeds more than 300 million people, the agri-giant Monsanto is fighting back with its own Web page.

    Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news 2009

  • The 'foreign dictats' are like the psychs psychiatrists and psychologists that Scientology supreme leader demonises.

    Mubarak's defiance could spell disaster 2011

  • If he demonises the bankers too effectively then the public will be less likely to countenance a handover of yet more cash to flagging banks.

    Not JFK but JEC Burke's Corner 2009

  • Ruth Smeed of the Board of Deputies of British Jews observed with astonishment, "The BNP website is now one of the most Zionist on the web -- it goes further than any of the mainstream parties in its support of Israel and at the same time demonises Islam and the Muslim world."

    Max Blumenthal: Neo-Nazis For Israel? 2009

  • So, for that Mr Al-Megrahi is condemned to die in chokey, while Hillary Clinton and everyone else demonises him.

    Nationalism and Megrahi Jeff 2009

  • If he demonises the bankers too effectively then the public will be less likely to countenance a handover of yet more cash to flagging banks.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • Instead, the BBC blames, smears and demonises them -- and through them, blames, smears and demonises the religion of Judaism itself.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • With a few - very few - honourable exceptions, the world's media demonises the little Jewish State, ignoring the existential challenges it faces, while in the main turning a blind eye to the atrocities in the Congo, Darfur, and Tibet, and is not particularly concerned (where's the oh-so-politically-correct-and-feminist BBC on this point?) when the Taleban bombs 144 schools, most of them girls 'schools.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Instead, the BBC blames, smears and demonises them -- and through them, blames, smears and demonises the religion of Judaism itself.

    BBC Newsnight plumbs new depths of bigotry 2009

  • “Perhaps it is the American political climate which demonises “socialism” in all its forms, equating it to Stalinism usually, a climate they are adjusting themselves to?”

    The Union Makes Us Weak 2009

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