Other Words from demagogue

Noun

demagoguery \ ˈde-mə-ˌgä-g(ə-)rē

\ noun

demagogy \ ˈde-mə-ˌgä-gē

, -ˌgä-jē , -ˌgō-jē \ noun

Examples of demagogue in a Sentence

Noun Like other good Whigs, they had assumed that the people, once free of English influence, would honor and elevate the country's true patriots and natural aristocracy in ways that the English Crown had not. But when in the decades following the Revolution the people seemed to succumb to the deceit and flattery of mushroom demagogues, who were the popular counterparts of courtiers, the Federalists became bewildered and bitter. — Gordon S. Wood, Revolutionary Characters, 2006 Before the U.S. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. — Tim Padgett et al., Time, 15 Mar. 2004 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 opponent called him a bigoted demagogue. that politician is just a demagogue who preys upon people's fears and prejudices Verb But Clinton's boldness seemed to work, at least within the Beltway. House Republicans mostly stifled the urge to demagogue against his plan. — Tom Morganthau et al., Newsweek, 11 Dec. 1995 See More

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Where are our musical bards at this critical time in history when the world is under assault by right-wing lunatics, dictators and a U.S. conservative party under the thumb of a very dangerous demagogue? — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022 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 By honoring Krause’s list, NEISD danced to the tune of a demagogue. — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2022 McCarthy was a hair-trigger demagogue; Welch was a talented writer and ambitious thinker who could make the most unhinged sort of claim appear both copiously researched and politically urgent. — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021 What's a demagogue's reaction to a rabid crowd at a rally? — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021 The former Louisiana governor and US congressman, 93, who died Monday of respiratory problems, was a brazen practitioner of the corrupt-politics-as-theatrics style mastered by the legendary Depression-era demagogue Huey Long. — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021 The former Louisiana governor and U.S. congressman, 93, who died July 12 of respiratory problems, was a brazen practitioner of the corrupt-politics-as-theatrics style mastered by the legendary Depression-era demagogue Huey Long. — Washington Post, 12 July 2021 Actually, it was dreamed up by President Dwight Eisenhower, who wasn’t even a lawyer, during the Army-McCarthy hearings to bar testimony about a White House meeting on how to silence a certain red-baiting demagogue from Wisconsin. — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The party seems determined to try to racially demagogue its way back to national power, even as an overwhelming majority of the country applauds the all-too-rare conviction of a white police officer who murdered a Black man. — Ankush Khardori, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021 With an election coming, advantage goes to those who stayed on the sidelines of the fight and now can demagogue on impossible solutions that would impose no pain and deliver free goodies. — Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018 See More

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