diabolize

Etymology

From French diaboliser.

diabolize means to represent as diabolical Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

Why this word is great

DIABOLIZE — [Verb] To portray or represent as utterly and absolutely evil by invoking the qualities or imagery of the devil. From French diaboliser, from Late Latin diabolus ("devil"), from Greek diabolos ("slanderer, devil"), and the English verbal suffix -ize. Unlike "demonize," which politicizes a human foe into a monstrous threat, or "vilify," which denotes general defamation, to diabolize is to confer a metaphysical condemnation, draping a subject in the cosmic vestments of supernatural malevolence. It is the inquisitor pointing not merely to heresy but to a pact signed in blood; the propaganda poster where a leader's silhouette sprouts horns; the whispered gossip that transforms eccentricity into evidence of an infernal pact—the alchemy that exiles complexity into the absolutes of a theological drama, giving horns to our formless dread.

verb

to represent as diabolical