demagogue in the PONS Dictionary

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Liberal critics, believing him a demagogue, gave as evidence his stand for quick payment of the veterans' bonus.
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The demagogues and quacks whom they attacked in the 1930s may seem like obvious targets now, but they didn't seem so then.
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His people called him dreamer and demagogue, and towards the end men of his own party called him traitor and broke his heart.
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A grand example to our pessimistic, socialistic friends and cheap demagogues of the sterling worth and noble, chivalric character of a society man of wealth.
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His radical ideas and demagogue sympathies brought him into difficulties with the authorities.
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There was a spice of the demagogue in his temper; he had the popular ear, and liked leadership.
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At other times, sectarianism may be the expression of a group's nationalistic or cultural ambitions, or exploited by demagogues.
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He is called a demagogue and a sycophant, and his eloquence is described as of a coarse and vehement character.
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The decrees began the persecution of the demagogues, which was directed against individuals who were accused of spreading revolutionary and nationalist ideas.
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You are speaking like a demagogue in the worst tradition of those who knowingly distort and deceive, for their own political purposes.
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