Demagogue
['deməgɒg] or [ˈdɛməɡɑɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices.
Typist: Nora--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ringleader of the populace, factious leader, popular agitator.
Editor: Will
Definition
n. a leader of the people: a popular and factious orator.—adjs. Demagogic -al (-goj′).—ns. Demagogism Demagoguism (dem′a-gog-ism); Dem′agoguery Demagogy (-goj′).
Editor: Shanna
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Grk. demos, people, and Eng. gag. One who gags the people.
Typed by Laverne
Examples
- The word demagogue has been frightfully maltreated in late years, but surely here is its real meaning--to flatter the people by telling them that their failures are somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr. Jones wrote a full and particular account of the dinner, which appeared duly in the Demagogue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He lived and died a poor man; he was perhaps the most honest of demagogues; but this did not save him from an abortive prosecution for peculation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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