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

There is no oxygen in there for a regular tweeter who’d like to get some shine for a witty response to a demagogic figure.

From Slate • May 7, 2023

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

The only really soldierly thing done at this time was by the "political General,"—the erratic, demagogic, trumpet-sounding "Jim" Lane.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John