What does demonised mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of demonise
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In front of 1500 striking firefighters at a rally in Glasgow yesterday, the somnolent Prescott was not so much demonised as taunted.
It seems to be tied up with a rather Victorian work ethic where poor people are demonised for idleness and deserve their fate.
Biographers were ever the under-belly of the literary world, patronised because they weren't epic poets or triple-decker novelists, and demonised as gossips and sneaks.
It's kind of like we've demonised injecting drug users to be very singular people.
In the early 1900s cinema going was similarly demonised, as were the adventure paperbacks known as penny dreadfuls.
In short, they have demonised the debate and pretended that conciliation is a bad thing.

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