Delegitimating

This delegitimating of a president -- and, by extension, his agenda -- explains the odd crowing reaction of Republicans to the failed Chicago Olympic bid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Disenchantment in its second phase pushed aside monotheistic religion as something irrational, thus delegitimating it as a unifying worldview in the modern secular world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the alternative, they can provoke the oppressive government to expend resources in putting down the rebellion, in the process weakening or delegitimating it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Bush administration's last Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Jim Glassman, used to say that Global Strategic Engagement should focus on delegitimating the enemy (al-Qaeda) rather than improving America's favorable ratings in these surveys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather than accepting it as normal that we have different views on health policy, he happily slanders the millions of Venezuelans who dissent from the government line, delegitimating our views by accusing us of thinking it a crime to want to devote more resources to the poor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Darwinists have become obsessed with delegitimating man's 'humanness'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Strategic communications advocates generally focused on the use of information in the service of particular tactical or strategic objectives: delegitimating al-Qaeda's ideology and driving up its negatives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(which was ultimately rejected at the board meeting before Beauregard's death) followed a pattern of "delegitimating and dehumanizing a fellow democracy." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Zac: "I'm thinking about going to France over the summer. Look, this guy Haitian character in [Ghost Dog] is [speaking Japanese]!" Frank: "That's not Japanese... That's French. Delegitimized." and Zac: "I dont see what you're pointing at, but I will drop my guard and stare [blankly] at that area while you blatantly steal half my soda." Vincent: "Delegitimized." ❋ Frank (2003)

"Oh man, I'm so good at [Pikachu]!" (Pikachu [dies], and the player loses.) "[Smack]! You just got delegitimized!" ❋ Rustjive (2003)

[Vincent]: <[generic] insult>[Zac]: "Why don't you just call me gay?" Vincent "..." Zac: "Deligitimized" ❋ Zac (2003)