demagogue
noun
a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
demagog
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a variation of
demagogue.
Example Sentences
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Senator Black is not a demagog, nor is he a statesman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty.
From Time Magazine Archive
A demagog and a pedagog wrote a prolog for a catalog.
From Time Magazine Archive
Subsequent dispatches proved Pilsudski no demagog anxious to become a dictator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet he was no vulgar demagog truckling to the caprices of mankind, nor was he a tyrant who pitted his will against the many and subdued by a show of arms.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard
