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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
rabble-rouser - adjective of a speech Tending to stir up the
passions of the audience
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Examples
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After an hour of rabblerousing, Cattivo Guida, a ruthless and brutal dictator, marched onto the stage and stood behind the podium.
365 tomorrows » The Assassin : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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After an hour of rabblerousing, Cattivo Guida, a ruthless and brutal dictator, marched onto the stage and stood behind the podium.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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President Carter, who conservatives would love to begin comparing to Obama -- some rabblerousing media outlets have already begun drawing parallels -- called for a review of urban policy quite similar to Obama's in March of his first year in office.
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Willie Brown, Jr. was introduced as "Mayor Brown" and he gave a short, rabblerousing speech.
Public Safety vs. Public Health 3: Patronage Politics sfmike 2009
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Willie Brown, Jr. was introduced as "Mayor Brown" and he gave a short, rabblerousing speech.
Archive 2009-06-01 sfmike 2009
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Her husband, unhappy with her rabblerousing on behalf of women, ended up taking a second wife.
Claudia Ricci: Divorce by Text Message? That's just one abomination... 2009
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Maybe I've just become jaded from being a part of the net for so long, but I hardly even bat an eye at anonymous threats or rabblerousing on the Internet -- the fact that the person is choosing to do it anonymously says to me that they probably wouldn't even dream of doing it when actually confronted face-to-face with another person.
Pseudonymous Blogging Richard Nokes 2006
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But how did this potent mix of Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and African patriotism become so enmeshed in this Black Liberation ideology that today is paid little attention by Black leaders in America and the Caribbean who believe that rabblerousing and posturing are the tools to advance the Black race?
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In this dangerous climate opportunistic local politicians have been pandering to their voter base and seeking to enact the most repressive and inhuman local laws by fear-mongering and rabblerousing.
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This backfired when she took the bit in her teeth and started rabblerousing in order to regain her populist base.
"Bhutto was fearless." Ann Althouse 2007
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