demagogic
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
demagogical
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a variation of
demagogic.
Example Sentences
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While I do not advocate demagogical slogans, such as 'swat the rich,' I believe in going all down the line and relieving the little fellow as well as the rich man in taxation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Toombs said, as to "land for the landless," it carried with it some demagogical power.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett
During this long procession the band played the demagogical airs of the Carmagnole and the Ça Ira, those pas de charge of revolts.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
In your younger years, you felt offended when you heard the old ones say, that is overdone, or utopian or demagogical, or whatever it might be, but now you use these very terms yourself.'
From Waldfried A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
I have been held up and indirectly censured, because I have stood by the people; because I have advocated those measures that are sometimes called demagogical.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
