demagogic

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Recent Examples of demagogic Targeting this sliver of the market as the primary villain of the affordability crisis is a fundamental, demagogic misdiagnosis. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 Mar. 2026 Some earlier leaders of the religious right were also cruel and demagogic. — 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 See All Example Sentences for demagogic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
Adjective
  • Some were arrested over social media posts whose criticism of the government was alleged to be seditious.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Its members used military formations during the January 6 attack, and the founder of the Oath Keepers was convicted of seditious conspiracy.
    — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Many of these migrants navigate the passage on makeshift boats that can capsize in treacherous waters.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The hillside was too treacherous for anybody to carry a litter up it, and a helicopter couldn’t descend in such a narrow airspace.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Telemachus’ lone contribution is killing Melanthius, the traitorous Ithacan farmhand, thus preventing him from continuing to arm the suitors.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
  • And at the very center of Hell is Satan himself, the traitorous Archangel Lucifer, depicted as a monstrous creature with wings and three heads.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026
Adjective
  • The 'leakers' of these treasonous statements are being hunted down.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • There will be more local politicians who fail the integrity test and become treasonous to their constituents.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 31 May 2026

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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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