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demagogue [ˈdeməgɒg, Am -gɑ:g] N pej

demagogue

demagog m

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The purported sovereignty of the comitia (people's assembly) became only a fiction, which might be exploited by demagogues for their own purposes. en.wikipedia.org

The first is that governments that fall into the hands of dictators and demagogues are capable of unspeakable brutality and horror. en.wikipedia.org

Power and funding followed those with the ability to maximise broadbased multi-ethnic support: negotiators and peacemakers were therefore elevated above demagogues and warmongers. en.wikipedia.org

They thought democracy could take the form of mob rule that could be shaped on the spot by a demagogue. en.wikipedia.org

At other times, sectarianism may be the expression of a group's nationalistic or cultural ambitions, or exploited by demagogues. en.wikipedia.org

Liberal critics, believing him a demagogue, gave as evidence his stand for quick payment of the veterans' bonus. en.wikipedia.org

You are speaking like a demagogue in the worst tradition of those who knowingly distort and deceive, for their own political purposes. en.wikipedia.org

The demagogues and quacks whom they attacked in the 1930s may seem like obvious targets now, but they didn't seem so then. en.wikipedia.org

He is called a demagogue and a sycophant, and his eloquence is described as of a coarse and vehement character. en.wikipedia.org

There is no trace of the demagogue about him, he told a reporter. en.wikipedia.org

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