demagogue|demagogues in English

noun

['dem·a·gogue || 'deməgɑg /-gɒg]

one who manipulates public emotions to gain power or popularity; popular leader who represented the common people in ancient times

Use "demagogue|demagogues" 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. I listened only when you moved toward shattering continental unions and electing vulgar demagogues.

7. Li Yang is a demagogue, to say the least.

8. Synonyms for Badasses include agitators, rebels, fighters, demagogues, dissidents, frondeurs, renegades, sparkplugs, hard-asses and hardasses

9. The Senator was a gifted demagogue, with particular skill in manipulating press and television.

10. The Peróns' followers praised their efforts to eliminate poverty and to dignify labour, while their detractors considered them demagogues and dictators.

11. 12 Democrats believe that Earth Day is a special day for them to demagogue and politicize environmental issues.

12. The danger apprehended that quack nostrums in public policy can be forced upon the voters by demagogues is demonstrably nonexistent.

13. Democrats believe that Earth Day is a special day for them to demagogue and politicize environmental issues.

14. A dwarf bicycled on his hands and a standup comic shouted like a moustachioed demagogue at the furniture.

15. 3 Nor did a demagogue emerge to match Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose cynical witch-hunts in the l950s put a generation on trial.

16. The Knights (424), with Aristophanes himself acting as Cleon, is a controversial and unapologetic attack of the demagogue Cleon

17. 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

18. Origin demagogue (1600-1700) Greek demAgogos, from demos “ people ” + Agogos “ leading ” Exercises Vocabulary exercises help you to learn synonyms, collocations and idioms.

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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

22. Collective discrimination aids terrorist recruitment by deepening fault lines exploited by extremist demagogues…The Muslim ban shows the Baselessness of Washington’s claim that it wants friendship with the Iranian people and that it only has issues with the government.

23. 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

24. 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.

25. Now the irony, from my perspective, is that the only people who seem to generally agree with me and who think that there are right and wrong answers to moral questions are religious demagogues of one form or another.