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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Governor Roosevelt had been called a demagog by Mr. Smith because he appealed to the "forgotten man."
From Time Magazine Archive
That is Heflin, who used to be chief demagog of the Democratic party, but his voice seems to have grown tired, and Caraway, with his low sarcastic drawl, twits him.
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
Jugoslavs of national consciousness believe, however, that Stefan Raditch, whom they deem a demagog, was a pernicious influence, obstructing the eventual union of the Serbs, Croats and other South Slavian peoples.
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
