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personality cult

British

noun

deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader

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James is younger and gentler, horrified by the thought of joining his father’s personality cult but lacking other prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is difficult to imagine most of them as objects of a personality cult.

From Salon

That decidedly does not mean turning the party into a personality cult.

From Salon

The anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is probably the best-known public figure - but the convicted criminal oversees a personality cult rather than a coherent movement, with the endless spectacle of his online diatribes and legal issues providing a living soap opera.

From BBC

In a memoir published this year, Mr Tae wrote about the excesses of the North Korean elite and the depths of the personality cult built around the Kims.

From BBC

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