Definition of "villanize" []

• To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. (verb)

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• "For legislators eager to villanize medical marijuana providers and their patients, we'd suggest they proceed with caution."
• "CD: People can be lazy in their storytelling and then characters become one dimensional and easy to villanize."
• "These villains, and the media voices that villanize them, create public support for the least common denominator: ending financial fraud."