demonize

The Glass Menagerieを読むところですが、まだその前の解説の個所を読んでいます。
Audiences and readers may choose either to demonize Amanda or regard her as a misguided saint, but the complexity of her character (suggested initially by Williams's description in the dramatis persona) precludes any facile assessment of her motherhood.
"demonize" は見たことがある単語ですが、意味が思い出せないので辞書を見ます。
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are completely evil: The Nazis used racist propaganda in an attempt to demonize the Jews.
・Vocabulary.com: make into a demon: “Power had demonized him”: But instead of lining up behind their own idea, Republican lawmakers set about demonizing it as a government attack on consumer freedom.
良く考えれば意味は分かった単語でした。