Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
villainize .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
vile ; todebase ; todegrade ; torevile .
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Examples
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CD: People can be lazy in their storytelling and then characters become one dimensional and easy to villanize.
Melissa Silverstein: Sundance Interview: Cherien Dabis, Director of Amreeka 2009
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These villains, and the media voices that villanize them, create public support for the least common denominator: ending financial fraud.
Harry Moroz: The Fake Out: Imitating Regulation in the Era of Madoff 2009
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For legislators eager to villanize medical marijuana providers and their patients, we'd suggest they proceed with caution.
Jessica Corry: Colorado Can Lead Nation In Marijuana Policy 2009
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You can go ahead and villanize this woman, but remember she was caught up in hurricane Wilma and had medical bills.
Bank runs, broke local governments and unaccountable Wall Street Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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I hope Elizabeth City's religious community will take a “love the sinner, hate the sin” approach to confronting our worst areas and not villanize the people they find there.
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I hope Elizabeth City's religious community will take a “love the sinner, hate the sin” approach to confronting our worst areas and not villanize the people they find there.
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I hope Elizabeth City's religious community will take a “love the sinner, hate the sin” approach to confronting our worst areas and not villanize the people they find there.
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People in this thread are trying to villanize "progressi vism" as liberalism as socialism.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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That seems to be what the author is getting at, which is absurd and only serves as an attempt to villanize industry.
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It's sad enough that he lost control and almost killed Rihanna, but it's a whole new level of low to continue to emotional abuse her by reconciling for the sole purpose of trying to absolve himself from his pathetic actions against her … now, my first and second inclinations are to condemn and villanize Chris Brown.
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