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Definition of demagogue:

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

Sentence Examples:

Exclaims some horror-stricken demagogue.

A courtier is merely a well-dressed demagogue.

The demagogue incited a political intrigue.

"He is a demagogue, pure and unadulterated."

How odious is this crew of demagogues!

Another called him 'an unscrupulous demagogue.'

The Advocate was neither democrat nor demagogue.

To most Federalists Jefferson seemed a bloodthirsty demagogue.

The demagogues and opportunists in Legislatures are, too.

The demagogues array their hearers against wealth.

And yet he was only a dexterous demagogue.

Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.

He is what men call an agitator, a demagogue.

These men were clamorous demagogues and nothing else.

In this condition the demagogue harangued the people.

"You would make me into a demagogue," he said irritably.

Clay's proposition as the act of a shameless demagogue.

The man's a demagogue, and mad as a loon.

Many demagogues and some "reformers" are always doing this.

Jefferson Davis denounced him as worse than a demagogue.

These were indiscriminately classed as demagogues and dangerous persons.

Thus, through demagogues at the North an animosity was aroused.

Hayes is no more than a crazed demagogue with a gun.

Their decisions were controlled by artful and designing demagogues.

There was the air of an autocrat, a demagogue about him.

He was sometimes charged, though unjustly, with being a demagogue.

A friend offered to introduce her to the "shameless demagogue."

The contemptible beast was inspired, as a politician is, a demagogue.

Between the courtier and the demagogue I see nothing to choose.

There is but one step from the courtier to the demagogue.

The bilious are demagogues, the sanguine, democrats, the nervous, aristocrats.

His father, the demagogue and tribune, accompanied him as journalist.

Mike Walsh was not only a demagogue, but an incorrigible joker.

This constitutes the demagogue, and he is that in superlative degree.

Browning is simply a great demagogue, with an impediment in his speech.

That is quite enough for the purposes of demagogues and incendiary agitators.

Some worthless demagogues may have exhorted the people to resist the laws.

Further, history was corroborated in that a demagogue ends as a tyrant.

Willfully or blindly our press and our demagogues screamed over a false issue.

The demagogues, I must say, spoke with some wildness and incoherence.

On returning to their homes, they develop into pernicious and vehement demagogues.

In the same way Bernard Shaw is a demagogue without being a democrat.

They were all brawling, disorderly, and dangerous demagogues, deserving of no consideration.

He attributed continually his deceptions to the conspiracies of aristocrats and demagogues.

No demagogue defends the poor and forsaken, at the expense of personal popularity.

"You don't call the harangue of that contemptible old demagogue reasoning, do you?"

What was he, unscrupulous demagogue or martyr in the cause of the poor?

I shall be assailed by demagogues and fanatics there without stint or moderation.

Your hungry demagogue, however, is not to be defeated by any scruples so delicate.

The half-educated are led astray by quacks and demagogues who flourish mightily.

Oratory flourishes under the great statesmen and the demagogues of the republic.

At this period he was noted chiefly as a dissolute debtor and a demagogue.

At present, they are like the athletes and gladiators of the Roman demagogues.

He dissected the arts of the demagogues in terms equally just and severe.

There is no want of English-born demagogues, as well as French, in the province.

Both the demagogue and his audience felt a craving for the daily stimulant.

No sooner was this done, than the indefatigable demagogue began his political reforms.

My father spoke of the noble enthusiast; the post-adjutant called him a demagogue.

Then our national council would not be disgraced by wrangling, pugnacious, reckless demagogues.

It is easy for demagogues to rant, but they'd find it still easier to run!

The face is striking, and indicative of the impetuosity of a fanatic and religious demagogue.

Peel starts in the character of a patriot, and ends in that of a demagogue.

He proved himself at once the subtlest of diplomatists and the grandest of demagogues.

There was in this man an aristocrat crushed and trampled upon by a demagogue.

Next, Absalom at the gate playing the demagogue, secretly inciting the people to revolt.

The irrepressible demagogue was at last allowed to take his seat without any opposition.

Demagogues harangued the crowds in words which would once have led to their imprisonment.

Travel and literary studies left no room for the surlier duties of the demagogue.

The 'true demagogue,' as is perfectly natural, holds the false demagogue in especial horror.

Incompetent men and hungry demagogues had clamored for high positions in the army.

And here the demagogue arose and bade her shirk no issue, even the red flag.

We have heard a great deal of demagogues and wicked Socialistic leaders of the mob.

Pericles was a thorough democrat, but he used none of the arts of the demagogue.

This would be the fitting end of a rule by irresponsible and penniless demagogues.

Eventually the most conscientious, popular and successful "demagogue" comes into a heritage of infamy.

Arndt was entangled, as a "demagogue," in a criminal case, and lost his appointment.

He is prince and demagogue, sagacious and extravagant, profound and frivolous, man and neuter.

Fuller soon observed it, and said the aspect was, in sooth, that of a demagogue.

Ten years from this he may be a demagogue, a rank socialist, whining about equality.

No bloodshed, as in the French Revolution; no frenzied demagogues, ready to become tyrants themselves!

I do not particularly object to a female despot; but I do object to a female demagogue.

And the Legate was thus enabled to play the papal demagogue against the usurper.

Three different charters had been sent to that demagogue, who contemptuously refused them all.

It may be a brand of discord in the hands of the abolitionist and the demagogue.

Up to this time he was known chiefly as a dissolute man and an unscrupulous demagogue.

I grant you have plausible arguments which skillful demagogues are using with more and more efficiency.

It gave a sting to the words of colonial demagogues and cut the sinews of colonial loyalty

Dudley Chisholm had much of the despot, but nothing of the demagogue, in his character.

Crowds, properly worked up by skillful demagogues, are ready to believe anything, and to do anything.

It exposes them to the seductions of the demagogue and to the control of the boss.

It makes us the prey to quacks and demagogues, until we learn to see through them.

It was usually by a mixture of violence and artifice that the demagogue accomplished his ends.

They constantly extorted new privileges, until they were sufficiently powerful to be courted by demagogues.

Political rivals had characterized him as a tricky demagogue, which may of course have been a libel.

He played the part of a demagogue in order to supplant the true friend of the people.

Their blatant demagogues asserted the contrary, and they continued to listen to their blatant demagogues.

New ideas and false theories are being presented and expounded by fanatics, charlatans, and demagogues.

There was a malicious glint in the greenish eyes of the dissolute demagogue as he saw her.

Greeley by demagogues and mercenaries during the canvass now poured out their eloquence at his grave.

The Socialistic movement appeared for the present to be confined to a few dreamers and demagogues.