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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
villainize .
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Examples
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Waiting for Superman dangerously villainizes teachers, writes Diane Ravitch: The claim that teachers can be accurately evaluated by student test scores has been refuted again and again by scholars.
Wonkbook: House votes for China tariffs; net neutrality bill dead; Elizabeth Warren's first speech Ezra Klein 2010
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But, as Scott Lemieux posits at TAPPED, the suit idly and transparently villainizes immigrants:
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders The Media Consortium 2011
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But, as Scott Lemieux posits at TAPPED, the suit idly and transparently villainizes immigrants:
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders The Media Consortium 2011
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(Meanwhile the same media villainizes the ordinary Mexicans who are forced to cross the border because they cannot make a living in a Mexico that protects only the interests of the rich).
Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Protests of Human Rights Abuses 2008
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But CNN, whose staff have received threats, appears to have become a proxy for what many Chinese see as Western media bias that villainizes China just as the country prepares to make a global splash through its hosting of the summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
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The pigs rewrite history in a way that villainizes Snowball and glorifies Napoleon even further.
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Hamas 'political and strategic development has been both ignored and misreported in Israeli and Western sources which villainizes the group, much as the PLO was once characterized as an anti-Semitic terrorist group.
War in Context 2009
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If he villainizes a company - take a good look and see if it really deserves your support.
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HAMAS 'political and strategic development has been both ignored and misreported in Israeli and Western sources which villainizes the group, much as the PLO was once characterized as an anti-Semitic terrorist group.
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Enter Mr. T as Clubber Lang (who pushes Rocky’s beloved trainer out of the way, causing a fatal heart attack) and Dolph Lundgren as the Red Menace (who villainizes the USSR during the mid-80s Cold War in “Rocky IV”), and nothing would ever be the same.
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