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demagogic

[dem-uh-goj-ik, -gog-, -goh-jik] / ˌdɛm əˈgɒdʒ ɪk, -ˈgɒg-, -ˈgoʊ dʒɪk /




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Oedipus sees himself as an answer to the demagogic manipulation that has wrought havoc.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

To suggest any connection between the war in Vietnam and the condition of Black citizens at home, according to Life, was little more than "demagogic slander."

From Salon Feb. 14, 2021

It’s alert to the ways in which demagogic leaders or movements can use propaganda, an older term that can be synonymous with disinformation.

From New York Times Oct. 13, 2020

As a Virginia planter, Washington might have sympathized with Madison and Jefferson, but he shared the Federalists' love of order and increasingly distrusted Republicans as demagogic and irresponsible.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

Thersites—Shakspeare's Thersites—for Homer's was another Thersites quite—finely called by Coleridge, "the Caliban of demagogic life"—loses all individuality, and is but a brutal buffoon grossly caricatured.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various




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