ideologue

noun

ideo·logue ˈī-dē-ə-ˌlȯg

-ˌläg

variants or less commonly idealogue

Synonyms of ideologue next

: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology

: an impractical idealist : theorist

Example Sentences

as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country

Recent Examples on the Web Contrary to these stories, the broader problem facing the court is not corruption, but the justices appearing as partisans and ideologues. —

David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023 Russian officials opened an investigation into a car bombing outside Moscow this weekend that killed the daughter of a prominent, far-right Russian ideologue who has long called for Russia to seize Ukraine. —

Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022 Last August, a car bombing outside Moscow killed Daria Dugina, a pro-war commentator and daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a leading Russian ultranationalist ideologue, who was thought to be the actual target of the attack. —

Haley Willis, New York Times, 3 May 2023 This idea emboldened antigovernment ideologues who wanted to eliminate Social Security altogether by giving it to the private sector. —

Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023 Dominion, on the other hand, hadn’t served as a quotidian punching bag for Fox News ideologues over the years. —

Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023 Brilliant, disciplined, and profoundly lonely, Yotam receives an invitation to join the nascent Cold People project by founding ideologue Song Fu. —

Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023 The committee, which includes crypto ideologues including Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), will surely be out for blood after aggressive moves from the SEC and banking regulators. —

Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 8 Mar. 2023 The explosion that killed Tatarsky, whose real name was Maksim Fomin, was the most brazen attack on a prominent war supporter inside Russia since the car bombing in August that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin. —

Anatoly Kurmanaev, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023 See More

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