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Definition of demagogue:

  • (noun) an orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience

Sentence Examples:

The demagogues understand human nature.

Demagogues are a highly privileged class.

Most of our politicians are demagogues.

Troops were sent to seize the demagogue.

Indeed, he was something of a demagogue.

These leaders may be called demagogues.

What adjective is formed from "demagogue"?

In no one trait was he a demagogue.

Only demagogues would say such things.

Republics have always been fruitful of demagogues.

"You consider Senator Crane an unreliable demagogue?"

He was the magnificent demagogue of science.

The demagogues were not necessarily poor men.

Here was excellent ammunition for the demagogue.

The time was ripe for the demagogue.

Does Nottingham send hither mere vulgar demagogues?

His opponents call him a dishonest demagogue.

He joined a labor organization purely as a demagogue.

Demagogues tried to remove the regulations of liberty.

Poor men were too easily led by demagogues.

"I shall be very short," said the demagogue.

Millions of the ignorant, led by demagogues!

Merit is not sought for by demagogues.

Was he afraid of mere talk from a demagogue!

Not one has been known to be a demagogue.

It succeeded massacres and factions and demagogues.

The demagogues will be more powerful than ever.

Ask that of your demagogues who courted war!

The Demagogues of the Churches must come next.

Not the demagogue; he is merely their tool.

Nor did he ever play the selfish demagogue.

He is a three-months' brigadier, and a rampant demagogue.

You have been trained to shudder at the demagogue?'

Their ability saves them from being demagogues.

The people were as usual the tools of demagogues.

This demagogue Scarborough has set the people crazy.

"A good many call him a demagogue, don't they?"

He was a political demagogue; on that everybody agreed.

The demagogue carries the amateurs of emotion with him.

The English have a natural distrust of the demagogue.

The demagogues were not at all certain of success.

Beware of the demagogue in whatever guise he presents himself.

Then followed popular revolutions under leaders or demagogues.

These men were called Demagogues (leaders of the people).

"They're all afraid of the demagogues," put in another.

In reality these demagogues were the worst enemies of reform.

Never has an issue been so demagogued by its opponents.

None but demagogues or socialists would ever think of it.

Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue.

Ben Butler was the chief demagogue of the land.

Keep your ears closed to the base lies of the demagogues!

The result was that intriguing demagogues were sometimes chosen.

The partisan sneers of demagogues cannot prevail against it.

A cruel and unjust proposition was made by a demagogue.

His merits as a demagogue and political writer are undeniable.

The great and glorious demagogue had degenerated into a statesman.

Here was ignorance fallen into the hands of the demagogue.

I had heard that the demagogue was again in arms.

"Woods, you talk like a two-cent demagogue," broke out Boggs.

Johnson was a demagogue, he shouted against a shouting crowd.

Nor is it left to the mere demagogue to talk thus.

The great democracy of modern times has its demagogues.

I've fought the demagogues of politics and killed them off.

Pitt will be dead when he has ceased to be a demagogue.

There is no barrier between honest rule and the demagogues.

The landlord was usually a politician, sometimes a rank demagogue.

These are not the reckless utterances of any angry demagogue.

There is no doubt that both men were noisy demagogues.

He had no desire to make a personal enemy of this demagogue.

He has never stooped to play the part of a demagogue.

No great popular leader had in him less of the demagogue.

He will be apt to reject the scheme of the demagogue.

In this changing world, how soon is the mere demagogue forgotten?

Although a tyrant, Napoleon the Third was a demagogue at heart.

Not one of the multitude stirred on behalf of their demagogue.

It is only a demagogue who would urge them on to it.

I doubt myself if he has enough of the demagogue in him.'

It is more vulgar than being a demagogue; because it is much easier.

Unless he is to some extent a demagogue, he cannot be a poet.

It is the cry of the demagogue, without the slightest foundation.

This is a state of affairs brought about by the demagogues.

The demagogues found it to their interests to extend its powers.

All this shows a master in diplomacy, a most clever demagogue.

The older demagogues had this to excuse them; they were ignorant.

I once heard a man call this age the age of demagogues.

As if they had run after a demagogue, a traitor, an anti-Jew!

He is a demagogue, stirring up the wild-beast passions of the people.

It is one of the arts of the demagogue and stump orator.

Whither will the madmen and demagogues direct their hopes now?'

He was essentially a demagogue on the side of the popular faction.

If you use merely your physical agents, you will be simply a demagogue.

To be a demagogue is not to advocate one thing rather than another.

Would the demagogues give him better prospects, or prove better masters?

Who was chief among the demagogues that now arose in Athens?

Aided by demagogues, the rule of the "Roughs" nears its culmination.

They know a statesman from a demagogue and facts from sensations.

No demagogue at that epoch would have spread his nets so wide.

I've fought the demagogues of labor and driven 'em out of town.

Demagogues easily use it to corrupt the voters with their own money.

Of truth, he made that very sparing use which demagogues always do.