demagogic
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- demagogically adverb
Etymology
Origin of demagogic
1825–35; < Greek dēmagōgikós, equivalent to dēmagōg ( ós ) ( see demagogue) + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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Oedipus sees himself as an answer to the demagogic manipulation that has wrought havoc.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025
To suggest any connection between the war in Vietnam and the condition of Black citizens at home, according to Life, was little more than "demagogic slander."
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2021
It’s alert to the ways in which demagogic leaders or movements can use propaganda, an older term that can be synonymous with disinformation.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020
As a Virginia planter, Washington might have sympathized with Madison and Jefferson, but he shared the Federalists' love of order and increasingly distrusted Republicans as demagogic and irresponsible.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Hegel himself was aware that he had planted a blow in the face of a “shallow and pretentious sect,” and that his book had “given great offence to the demagogic folk.”
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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