Demagog

Word DEMAGOG
Character 7
Hyphenation dem a gog
Pronunciations N/A

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One who uses popular biases and other aspects of cultural programming to elicit a "knee-jerk reaction" from a crowd or audience, avoiding the dispassionate examination of the facts related to some issue, in order to ascend to leadership. Also demagogue, from the Greek demos 'people' + aggos 'leading' Urban Dictionary

A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. In other words, a person who lies and manipulates a crowd by giving them false hopes by just telling them what they want to hear, no matter how outrageous and wrong it is. Usually done to gain votes. see liberal. Urban Dictionary

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The word "demagog" in example sentences

"demagog," students are apt to think, incorrectly, that that spelling is the common "correct" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those demagog will be plunged into such confusion as they already are and they going to start blamming one another. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Can you say demagog? or banana republic? cause that's where this is heading. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Palin is hitting the demagog ball out of the park. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we live in a non-U world; just as catalogue and dialogue have been dropping their ue endings, so too will demagogue soon enough be spelled demagog, with its gerund demagoging. ❋ William Safire (2004)

Sú to ľudia, ktorí sa stali korisťou demagog, boli vtiahnutí do učenec je prostredníctvom emotívne vzor odvolania a ľahké obetovať. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Títo ľudia len zriedka uvedomujú, ako táto ideológia je obetovať alebo sa zapojiť do popretie nad tým, koľko demagog ovplyvniť ich nápady. ❋ Unknown (2004)

That is my opinion and that I have always thought -- a demagog and a fake. ❋ Unknown (1972)

Richard Nixon is in his opinion "a demagog and a fake," and that he had based his conclusion on Nixon's acts, primarily his aggression in Vietnam. ❋ Unknown (1972)

But what I want to say is that it would be fraud to try and install a demagog. ❋ Unknown (1970)

One day, some might come to think sincerely that this is demagog, that this is something else. ❋ Unknown (1966)

Moreover, the demagog and the corruptionist often work hand in hand. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

"A demagog, my son, is a man who can rock the boat himself and persuade everybody that there's a terrible storm at sea." ❋ Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher (N/A)

Corruption is never so rife as in communities where the demagog and the agitator bear full sway, because in such communities all moral bands become loosened, and hysteria and sensationalism replace the spirit of sound judgment and fair dealing as between man and man. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

Suppose they were to elect to office some wild and reckless demagog ... take, for instance, that ruffian you were telling us about ... down there on the Bowery ... ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

"On the one side a statesman preaching patience and respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith; on the other a demagog speaking about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers." ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

The demagog who can find a million men all responsive to the same emotion can swing them as easily as a hundred if he knows his business. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)

In ancient Greece, one of the common purposes of logical argument was to [deflate] the rhetoric of a [demagogue]. Despite the harmful divisions created, [G.W. Bush] chose to act as a demagogue rather than lose re-election. ❋ Hvalois (2005)

[Look at that] demagog over there, [brainwashing] those [ignorant people]! ❋ Nebbers (2004)

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