demagogic

Example Sentences

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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

"Ugly and appalling as they are, those speeches are masterpieces of demagogic manipulation," Neuborne says.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

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

I do not mean anything demagogic; I do not mean to talk as if we wanted a great mass of men to rush in and destroy something.

From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Wilson, Woodrow