personality cult

noun

1. deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader

Example Sentences

Its personality cult, rigid conformity and fire-breathing rhetoric notwithstanding, North Korea is not a monolith.

From The Daily Beast

These "new religion-personality cult-purges" cycles were not absent from the Velvet Revolution.

From Project Gutenberg

Chervenkov, in the post-Stalin period, was openly charged with supporting the personality cult policies of Stalin.

From Project Gutenberg