ideologue

[ahy-dee-uh-lawg, -log, id-ee-, ahy-dee-]

noun

1. a person who zealously advocates an ideology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ideologue¹

1805–15; < French idéologue; ideo-, -logue

Example Sentences

Campus ideologues would scream bloody murder as the fiefdoms they have painstakingly constructed are dismantled, predictably appealing to the values they eradicated from campuses.

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“West Coast ideologues have embraced the laissez-faire ideology of their erstwhile conservative enemy,” they wrote.

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Mr. Howard’s argument, which I find persuasive, is that Cowley’s stint as an ideologue was a short-term folly that does not fundamentally implicate his literary endeavors.

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The night he won, he showed who he was: a serious ideologue who means it.

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It was the kind of ruthlessness that gave Pelosi great pride; she boasted of a reptilian cold-bloodedness and, indeed, though she shared the liberal leanings of her hometown, Pelosi was no ideologue.

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