Vilify vs Monsterise - What's the difference?
vilify | monsterise |
To say defamatory things about someone or something.
To belittle through speech; to put down.
To give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.
* 1851 , The British Friend , Volume 9, page 22
* 1997 , Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film , page 330
* 2005 , Outlook , Volume 45, Issues 9-16
As verbs the difference between vilify and monsterise
is that vilify is to say defamatory things about someone or something while monsterise is to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.vilify
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Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* (say defamatory things about) assail, criticize, decry, denounce, libel, slander * berate * See alsomonsterise
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Alternative forms
* monsterizeVerb
(monsteris)- and it would seem, as if to atone for that deficiency in the eyes of " a hero worshipper," that Macaulay had determined to monsterise him into an embodiment of inconsistency, deceit, and simulation.
- (quite literally monsterise ) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.
- A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers.
