How to Use demagogue in a Sentence

demagogue

noun

• His opponent called him a bigoted demagogue.
• Here's the background: Tennessee's finances are a mess. The state is facing a shortfall of some $310 million—but legislators remember what happened last year when they considered imposing the first income tax on wages. Goaded by talk-radio demagogues, hundreds of citizens surrounded the Statehouse in a near riot.
  — Editor & Publisher, 4 Feb. 2002
• His first glance was the frown of the man; the second was the bland and sickly smile of the demagogue.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• Two plus two equals four whether a child says so or a demagogue denies it.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
• To suggest otherwise was to be slapped down as a rank demagogue of the worse kind.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 11 June 2019
• The past century has been, sometimes for the better but more often for the worse, the era of the demagogue.
  — Frederick Taylor, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• Frank’s Truman is a populist in the best sense of the word: not a demagogue but a true man of the people.
  — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• The most fervent devotees of a cult or demagogue are those who mistake courtship for love and the power of a leader for their own.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• But Pence is, at core, a small-d democrat, not a demagogue.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Who knew prayer and protest couldn’t coexist with respect to dealing with a demagogue?
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 3 Oct. 2017
• But the next incarnation of a digital demagogue may not emerge in public view.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• What's a demagogue's reaction to a rabid crowd at a rally?
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• What cost did Kelly ever pay for being a racial demagogue?
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 19 June 2017
• The base rhetoric of populist demagogues around the world is terrifyingly simple.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
• Is Willie Stark a redneck demagogue who regularly flouts the rule of law?
  — Michael Dirda, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• The world-class demagogue from Tabasco, who thrives on nationalism, now has the bit in his mouth.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2021
• But this time, the despot, the demagogue, and the war-crimes advocate had something unusual in common.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Any future populist demagogue who finds his way into the White House will have access to the same power.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 17 Aug. 2018
• In some ways, that could make the post-election Trump more powerful as a demagogue than he's ever been.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
• In Trump, many of us — myself included — see a scary demagogue.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Anyone who employs the phrase is either a demagogue or an ignoramus.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 June 2023
• The season also introduces a new demagogue: Vecna, who is mentioned in the trailer as one the gang is ready to fight.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
• In the age of mass media, a skilled demagogue like Rhodes can rise to great heights and defy any easy moral arc as long as the public continues to sit back and enjoy the show.
  — Jake Tapper, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2020
• What Kelly is, though, is a pretty blond white woman who exists in the era of a racist demagogue president.
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 5 June 2017
• The checks and balances that populists decry are reasonably effective in most rich countries and will outlast the current crop of demagogues.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• Abensur got me making risotto long before cooking-show demagogues made many a home cook too nervous to try.
  — Julia Tausch, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
• It was spread by a bullying demagogue who accused his opponents of being traitors and communists.
  — John Avlon, CNN, 6 May 2021
• The notion of a pandemic for many involved in the film about a fringe blogger-turned-demagogue seemed like a distant possibility back then.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2021
• But that was a lot of explaining to get to the exact same conclusion, that the Black Heretic is a selfish, rotten demagogue.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2021
• In my grandfather’s time, there was no wall or barrier or demagogue on our shores turning immigrants away.
  — Eric Kurhi, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024