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demagogue
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf. F. d['e]magogue.] A leader of the rabble; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A dwarf bicycled on his hands and a standup comic shouted like a moustachioed demagogue at the furniture. ▪ As divided and unprepared democratic forces fumbled for a plan of action, demagogues would rush forward convincingly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Greek demagogos "popular leader," also "leader of the mob," from demos "people" (see demotic ) + agogos "leader," from agein "to lead" (see act (n.)). Often a term of disparagement since the time of its first use, in Athens, 5c. B.C.E. Form ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience [syn: demagog , rabble-rouser ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A demagogue (from Greek δημαγωγός, a popular leader, a leader of the mob, from δῆμος, people, populace, the commons + ἀγωγός leading, leader) or rabble-rouser is a leader in a democracy who gains popularity by exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A leader of the people. 2 (context pejorative English) A political orator or leader who gains favor by pandering to or exciting the passions and prejudices of the audience rather than by using rational argument. vb. (context ...
Usage examples of demagogue.
We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud.
Underwood, a crawling, shambling, shuffling, ignorant demagogue who had set a new standard of judicial honor and dignity.
He can assure the tired old President that he can offer what Bruening could not: a government supported by Hitler and yet without the inconvenience of having the fanatical demagogue in it.
No Licinius Crassus had ever been apostrophized as a demagogue or any other sort of political radical, so what was Catulus prating about?
Patrician though he was, that man was going to be a demagogue, another Gaius Marius.
They had even accused him of trying to become a bigger demagogue than Saturninus by wooing the Head Count!
The tribunate of the plebs appeals to men with a streak of the demagogue in them, like Clodius.
Greek concept, the demagogue was a politician whose chief appeal was to the crowds.
Caesar, the outside horse in the race for power, and was clever enough to know that Caesar was no demagogue, no political adventurer.
Roman magistrate, even the most unabashed demagogue who ever called himself a tribune of the plebs!
She had a deceptively keen mind, he was aware, and she thought like a businessman and wrote like a demagogue, but he doubted her abilities as a military strategist.
Even the worst demagogue has a pattern, a logic directed toward the praetorship and the consulship.
Instead of being a model of exemplary behavior to your juniors in this assemblage and to those outside in the Forum, you conduct yourself like the worst demagogue who ever prated from the rostra, like the most foul-mouthed heckler who ever stood at the back of any Forum crowd!
That he was now the President of the College of Tribunes of the Plebs did not bode well for tribunician antics of demagogue kind.
And, in fact, it looked as if not one of the ten who were elected was of the demagogue kind, nor was the election of the college followed by a spate of controversial new legislation.