[ UK /dˈɛmɐɡˌɒɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛməˌɡɑɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
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How To Use demagogue In A Sentence

  • In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
  • Can we preserve nuance, detail and polychromy in our accounts of ourselves – as complex selves in a complex society – without being coerced into subscription towards one group identity or another by colour-blind demagogues? A true democracy demands constant revitalisation of the spirit of openness, generosity and liberality of opinion
  • It was only when confronted with the loathing so many on the left feel for him that I discovered how much there was to admire in the doughty old demagogue.
  • Extremists will forever be able to demagogue conditions of misery, making continued U.S. involvement in asymmetric warfare an increasingly counterproductive exercise — because killing one terrorist creates five more in his place. Facebook Says…
  • I'd like to propose my own candidate for the most loathsome display of demagoguery in the past 25 years.
  • But it is also an exquisitely coded and exploitative masterpiece of tub-thumping demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery.
  • Moreover, the circus promises the appearance of a mysterious Prince, a demagogue who is plotting untold evil.
  • And he is playing a conventional game of economic demagoguery to win votes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gentlewoman — query — If I am confoundedly violent who never use violence in private or public — what are the Demagogues — the Consuls the Letter 130
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