Synonyms of demagogic

demagogic

adjective

as in rabble-rousing

Related Words

• rabble-rousing
• seditious
• treacherous
• traitorous
• treasonous
• agitating
• defiant
• insubordinate
• disobedient
• revolutionary
• intractable
• insurrectionary
• insurgent
• refractory
• recalcitrant
• ungovernable
• mutinous
• restive
• rebellious
• unruly

Dissimilar Words

• constant
• true
• loyal
• steadfast
• staunch
• devoted
• obedient
• true-blue
• compliant
• tractable
• submissive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of demagogic

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

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