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- noun Misspelling of
demagogue .
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Examples
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Stephen Harper is wasting money, is engaging in the politics of fear and is trying to be some kind of demogogue -- all for partisan political gain.
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Stephen Harper is wasting money, is engaging in the politics of fear and is trying to be some kind of demogogue -- all for partisan political gain.
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Joe Wierzbicki, strategist with the conservative PAC Our Country Deserves Better, fits my definition of a demogogue: "... one who preaches doctrines he knows to be true to men he knows to be idiots."
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This I do know about Palin: she is a demogogue as defined by H.L. Mencken: "One who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to those he knows to idiots."
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McInsane is a tired, old demogogue career politician who will change positions on a whim if it will help him get re-elected.
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You have to kind of let go and tell the truth, or else no one can hear you! tpn yes, he needs to reveal himself for the Green-populist demogogue that he is, as he rewards political allies with jobs and contracts that have little to do with qualifications. tpn
Council Moving Closer to McGinn on 520 Light Rail « PubliCola 2010
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At least it was still accurate ... a nastier bunch of demogogue liars than the contemporary GOP hasn't existed for nigh on a half century.
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But McConnell thinks it's on, for some reason, probably because his job is just to demogogue like the dickens.
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But McConnell thinks it's on, for some reason, probably because his job is just to demogogue like the dickens.
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Yeah, keep the old fart and the mid-life crisis trophy vice presidential candidate demogogue off YouTube.
McCain Fights for the Right to Remix on YouTube - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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