demagogic

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Recent Examples of demagogic Dave acts onstage, in service of artistic truth; Giles, on the stage of public life, peddles demagogic fictions. Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 When triggered, it short circuits the candidate’s strategic thinking and elicits demagogic and dehumanizing arguments. Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024 The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy. Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024 These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic. Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for demagogic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
Adjective
  • Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 attack and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
    Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 21 May 2025
  • Enrique Tarrio, who was facing 22 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with Jan. 6, was among the hundreds of rioters who were granted pardons by Trump.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • The pine trees are towering and the fairways are twisting and the bunkers are deep and treacherous.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
  • Maybe the seemingly long haul on I-95 made treacherous by traffic congestion creates the Miami-Dade County and Broward County division among its residents.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
  • Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Bruce Springsteen called the Trump administration 'corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.' Bruce Springsteen didn't back down.
    Chris Jordan, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • The perpetrators who drove the chaos at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building have been duly tried and convicted for their terrible and treasonous acts.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025

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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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