demagogic
adjective
dem·a·gog·ic
ˌde-mə-ˈgä-gik 
also -ˈgä-jik
or -ˈgō-jik
: of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue : employing demagoguery
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Some earlier leaders of the religious right were also cruel and demagogic.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
So do the teachers who bond together, with their own rubber-bullet guns, to form the PTAA (Parent Teacher Arms Association), in a cartoonishly demagogic response to the issue of school safety.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
On the other side, the Reverend Al Sharpton, a corpulent, demagogic presence, took up the victims’ cause, and was seen by some as a radical, and by almost everyone as an opportunist.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
The dialect society voters who (literally) snapped their fingers in approval for woke would watch it get twisted by political commentators and a demagogic right-wing into what was tantamount to a slur.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
So do the teachers who bond together, with their own rubber-bullet guns, to form the PTAA (Parent Teacher Arms Association), in a cartoonishly demagogic response to the issue of school safety.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
On the other side, the Reverend Al Sharpton, a corpulent, demagogic presence, took up the victims’ cause, and was seen by some as a radical, and by almost everyone as an opportunist.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
The dialect society voters who (literally) snapped their fingers in approval for woke would watch it get twisted by political commentators and a demagogic right-wing into what was tantamount to a slur.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demagogic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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