Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or like a demagogue; given to pandering to the rabble from self-interest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to
demagogy or ademagogue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of or resembling a demagogue
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Examples
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Gregg, who supports the legislation, blasted Tancredo's tactics, saying those who take what he called a demagogic approach are using it to raise their own political visibility.
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This is the Bill Gates claim that can properly be called demagogic.
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After King's "I Have A Dream" speech at the March on Washington an indignant Sullivan wrote to Hoover the speech was "demagogic" and that "We must mark [King] now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation."
FBI agents that spied on Martin Luther King also ran COINTELPRO operation against 'Omaha Two' 2009
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Keeping the cuts in the marriage penalty and the increase in the dependent deduction could, he said, help shield the Democrats against "demagogic" attacks by the GOP.
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It must, furthermore, avoid everything which might diminish or even weaken its ability to move the masses, not for 'demagogic' reasons, but in the simple knowledge that without the mighty force of the mass of a people, no great idea, however lofty and noble it may seem, can be realized.
Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925
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He described efforts to pass a blocking law in Germany as "demagogic" in a recent documentary aired on German public TV channel NDR.
PCWorld 2010
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Hoover the speech was "demagogic" and that "We must mark [King] now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation."
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Hoover the speech was "demagogic" and that "We must mark [King] now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation."
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Hoover the speech was "demagogic" and that "We must mark [King] now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation."
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It would have encouraged white/black coalitions that hampered the implementation of the kind of demagogic mob politics Mugabe has used to fortify his political power at the expense of his country's happiness.
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