demagogue in English
In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
- rabble-rouseragitatorpolitical agitatorsoapbox oratorfirebrandfomenterprovocateur
- rabble-rouserdemagog
Use "demagogue" in a sentence
1. They labeled him a demagogue.
2. They labelled him as a demagogue.
3. The demagogue has won people's support.
4. I don't want to demagogue my talk.
5. Newcastle is not remembered as a radical demagogue.
6. Li Yang is a demagogue, to say the least.
7. The Senator was a gifted demagogue, with particular skill in manipulating press and television.
8. 12 Democrats believe that Earth Day is a special day for them to demagogue and politicize environmental issues.
9. Democrats believe that Earth Day is a special day for them to demagogue and politicize environmental issues.
10. A dwarf bicycled on his hands and a standup comic shouted like a moustachioed demagogue at the furniture.
11. 3 Nor did a demagogue emerge to match Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose cynical witch-hunts in the l950s put a generation on trial.
12. The Knights (424), with Aristophanes himself acting as Cleon, is a controversial and unapologetic attack of the demagogue Cleon
13. Aristophanes wished to destroy Cleon because that demagogue failed to realize the poet's conception of dignified government and tended to upset the stability of Hellas
14. Origin demagogue (1600-1700) Greek demAgogos, from demos “ people ” + Agogos “ leading ” Exercises Vocabulary exercises help you to learn synonyms, collocations and idioms.
15. He was for some time the leading demagogue in his native city, but afterwards came to Rome and became acquainted with Lucius Licinius Varro Murena.
16. Mencken dismissed him as a “backwoods demagogue of the oldest and most familiar model — impudent, Blackguardly, and infinitely prehensile.” In 1931, the new senator cheerfully greeted a
17. Both pedagogue and demagogue can trace their roots back to the Greek verb Agogos, "leader," but the first element of each word leads them in different directions
18. Agitator noun troublemaker, revolutionary, inciter, firebrand, instigator, demagogue, rabble-rouser, agent provocateur, stirrer (informal) a famous actress who was accused of being a political Agitator Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition
19. Where a strongpoint must be cracked wide open, a Traitor warship boarded or a foul demagogue slain even as he stands amidst his dedicated bodyguards, there are the Allarus Custodians deployed.
20. The Contemptible beast was inspired, as a politician is, a demagogue.: One is lowdown and Contemptible and nasty, and the other is expedient.: Albert, with all his scholasticism, was no Contemptible naturalist.: Why, you Contemptible, lubberly young rascal, what do you mean?: I've a very good mind to shake you severely, for your Contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit.
21. A Blustering braggart; a former prize ring plug-ugly; a preacher of discontent; a political pretender; a man utterly without regard for the essential conventions of society; a passionate agitator who would use his authority as a bully uses his strength, a vain, mouthing demagogue, without knowledge of the genius of our government, without
22. -Agogue definition, a combining form with the meaning “leader, bringer,” of that named by the initial element, occurring in loanwords from Greek (demAgogue; pedAgogue); used also in medical terms that denote substances inducing the expulsion or secretion of that named by the initial element (cholAgogue; hemAgogue)
23. ‘Whoever promises a quick and easy solution is either a fool, a Charlatan or a demagogue.’ ‘So he was a liar and a Charlatan, every magician is.’ ‘That man was proclaimed a fool, a crook and a Charlatan up and down the country.’ ‘Was he the Charlatan and opportunist many still claim him to be?’