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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
personality cult
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But at no time is this conditioning of mild hysteria and personality cult a wholesome thing.
▪ However, Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult, and eventually the policy was changed.
▪ I don't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort.
▪ Mr Koizumi is the centre of a virtual personality cult in his homeland, with support ratings of almost 90 %.
▪ Propping up the world's most enduring dictator is a slavish personality cult, and rigid control of the nation.
▪ The Sicilian tyrants did not, however, take the personality cult as far as the successors of Alexander.
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personality cult

n. (alternative form of cult of personality English)

Usage examples of "personality cult".

Ceausescu came back with the personality cult of Mao and Kim il Sung.

You gave them just the weapon they needed, Iamskoy was slandering Soviet justice, they said, or promoting a personality cult for himself, or mentally ill.

The son of Aleksandr Ramius was a prima donna who had the troubling habit of seeming to build his own personality cult: he kept some of the men he trained and discarded others.

One mistake she was determined not to make was to create some sort of personality cult in which her senior subordinates were unwilling to challenge what they saw as possible errors of judgment on her part.

It seems to me, General, and Im sure that it seems so to you, that Hari Seldon is the focus of a personality cult.

In his vast personality cult he is constantly compared to great figures of Iraq's past.

The man had not only shown admirable circumspection at a dangerous moment but he had also disregarded the tradition of the personality cult which had fettered the politics of Heeninniy ever since Iiy-Juur-Eelie had taken over.