Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A leader or speaker who stirs up the passions of the masses; a demagogue.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who tries to stir up masses of people for political action by appealing to their emotions rather than their reason. A demagogue.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
Examples
“Putting on a jacket was already a big step for Mr. Leung, who usually wears a Che Guevera T-shirt and is known as a rabble-rouser.”
“Just like you coming on here and trying your damnedest to be a rabble-rouser amuses you.”
“Though he often exhibits dangerous, left-wing, rabble-rouser predilections; Mr. Herbert has neither the following nor the organizational skills necessary to form a cohesive and hostile, Rabble-Rousing Unit.”
“That means that the majority of people in my fine land might actually perceive its trans-Fox News right wing rabble-rouser rhetoric as reality.”
“Some began to approach us because they recognized the rabble-rouser described in the newspapers.”
“You can buttress a rabble-rouser at conferences and other events.”
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“I find Krugman's journalism to be pretty disgraceful - to me he comes across as a power-seeking rabble-rouser, who is trading on his high professional reputation as an economist.”
An Economist or a Public Intellectual?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Vendola's idiom - part university professor, part rabble-rouser, part abstract poet - distinguishes him from the predictable rhetoric of Italian politicians.”
“In short, I wish he would be more of a rabble-rouser.”
“The attitude that he must always appear calm, always work toward compromise and avoid at all costs appearing to be a rabble-rouser, is now taking an enormous toll.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Madrick: The Tragedy of Defensive Politics
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘rabble-rouser’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
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Words that are fun to say....
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stpeter's Words
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Politrix
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
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Scenariot
Rebellious destruction, police and protestors, or just angry mobs.
bedlam, chaos, havoc, destruction, cataclysm, devastation, mayhem, plunder, ravage, wreckage, destroy, blitzkrieg and 112 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
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polysyllabary
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wit's Words
hullabaloo, ballyhoo, brouhaha, hubbub, haberdashery, chicanery, chagrin, rabble-rouser, machinations, palindrome, panopticon, vindaloo and 22 more...
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Hyphenated Actual Words
These kind of stun me whenever I see them. Language is just so cool.
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clarissadalloway's list
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Thunder
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