Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practices or rhetoric of a demagogue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Action characteristic of a demagogue; demagogism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The actions of a
demagogue - noun
Rhetoric that appeals to theprejudices of the people
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace
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Examples
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Now, true, Madison was concerned about what -- what he called demagoguery, democratic politics that was violating the rights of property in his state of Virginia and elsewhere.
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She said sometimes listens to talk radio on her way home from work and is appalled by what she describes as demagoguery that seems designed only to make people angry and fearful.
azcentral.com | news Weldon B. Johnson 2010
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She said sometimes listens to talk radio on her way home from work and is appalled by what she describes as demagoguery that seems designed only to make people angry and fearful.
azcentral.com | news Weldon B. Johnson 2010
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Advances in demagoguery technology make actually buying off the middle obsolete.
Matthew Yglesias » Income Inequality and Low Savings Rate 2010
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Advances in demagoguery technology make actually buying off the middle obsolete.
Matthew Yglesias » Income Inequality and Low Savings Rate 2010
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Now that the office has degenerated into a plebiscitary presidency, this sort of demagoguery is taken for granted.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Chief Justice Roberts on Attending the SOTU 2010
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April 9th, 2010 at 10: 18 am wwew says: more brainless demagoguery from the immoral toad that is too dumb to know how dumb he is.
Think Progress » Gingrich Pledges Government Shutdown If GOP Wins Back House And Senate 2010
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Now that the office has degenerated into a plebiscitary presidency, this sort of demagoguery is taken for granted.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Chief Justice Roberts on Attending the SOTU 2010
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"At a time when anti-immigrant demagoguery is again on the rise, Romántico's close and unsentimental encounter with the life of an undocumented migrant and his family - skillfully rendered in an intimate verité style - locates the real engine of social upheaval in the underlying poverty and insecurity of a transnational economy," writes Robert Avila at SF360.
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Political demagoguery is wrong, but half-hearted political demagoguery is just sad.
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