ideologue

noun ideo·logue \ ˈī-dē-ə-ˌlȯg , -ˌläg \

variants: or less commonly idealogue

|Updated on: 8 Jun 2018

Examples: ideologue in a Sentence

Definition of ideologue

1 : an impractical idealist : theorist

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

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Examples of ideologue in a Sentence

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 of ideologue from the Web

Colleagues describe him as more of a pragmatist than an ideologue.

— david harrison, WSJ, "Fed Pick Clarida Holds at Least $9 Million in Job-Related Financial Assets," 17 May 2018
Here’s a profile of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the nerdy conservative ideologue who orchestrated the net neutrality repeal.

— recode staff, Recode, "Recode Daily: After a close U.S. Senate vote, net neutrality lives to fight another day," 17 May 2018
Behind Pai’s brainy, technocratic mask, though, is an alter ego: ruthless conservative ideologue.

— andrew rice, WIRED, "This Is Ajit Pai, Nemesis of Net Neutrality," 16 May 2018
Inviting a bunch of mainstream media–hating ideologues into the room is generally not a very good way to investigate a problem.

— alex shephard, The New Republic, "Why Facebook Is Desperate for Conservative Allies," 4 May 2018
What’s more, the 19th-century imperial ideologues saw the scientific successes of the West as a way to allege that non-Europeans were intellectually inferior and so deserved and needed to be colonized.

— rohan deb roy, Smithsonian, "Science Still Bears the Fingerprints of Colonialism," 10 Apr. 2018
When Hitler's Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Vienna's medical faculties was purged of several of its doctors and replaced with Nazi ideologues.

— deutsche welle, USA TODAY, "Autism doctor Hans Asperger collaborated with the Nazis, new research shows," 19 Apr. 2018
During Thursday’s Senate hearing, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) grilled Pompeo about his past associations with prominent anti-Muslim ideologues.

— emily stewart, Vox, "Kaine voted for Pompeo as director of the CIA. He says he’ll oppose him at State.," 15 Apr. 2018
Such opinions weren’t confined to colonial officials and imperial ideologues and were often shared by various representatives of the scientific profession.

— rohan deb roy, Smithsonian, "Science Still Bears the Fingerprints of Colonialism," 10 Apr. 2018

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