Synonyms for demagogue
noun agitating personbadass
incendiary
inciter
insurrectionary
- agitator
- anarchist
- antagonist
- apostate
- demagogue
- deserter
- disectarian
- dissenter
- experientialist
- experimenter
- frondeur
- guerrilla
- heretic
- iconoclast
- independent
- individualist
- innovator
- insurgent
- insurrectionist
- malcontent
- mutineer
- nihilist
- nonconformist
- opponent
- overthrower
- recreant
- renegade
- resistance
- revolter
- revolutionary
- revolutionist
- rioter
- schismatic
- secessionist
- seditionist
- separatist
- subverter
- traitor
- turncoat
insurrectionist
- agitator
- anarchist
- antagonist
- apostate
- demagogue
- deserter
- disectarian
- dissenter
- experientialist
- experimenter
- frondeur
- guerrilla
- heretic
- iconoclast
- independent
- individualist
- innovator
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- malcontent
- mutineer
- nihilist
- nonconformist
- opponent
- overthrower
- recreant
- renegade
- resistance
- revolter
- revolutionary
- revolutionist
- rioter
- schismatic
- secessionist
- seditionist
- separatist
- subverter
- traitor
- turncoat
Word Origin & History
1640s, from Greek demagogos "popular leader," also "leader of the mob," from demos "people" (see demotic) + agogos "leader," from agein "to lead" (see act (n.)). Often a term of disparagement since the time of its first use, in Athens, 5c. B.C.E. Form perhaps influenced by French demagogue (mid-14c.).
Example Sentences fordemagogue
And here the demagogue arose and bade her shirk no issue, even the red flag.
The contemptible beast was inspired, as a politician is, a demagogue.
The constituency of the grog seller is the ready made tool of the demagogue.
No one would have the United States play the role of a bully, or enact the demagogue.
Like any other demagogue, he gains attention by his blusterings.
His merits as a demagogue and political writer are undeniable.
And you are a demagogue, and a demigod, and a Jew, and a Mephisto!
Genêt, the French demagogue, was sowing sedition everywhere.
He is a demagogue, stirring up the wild-beast passions of the people.
Are you doing this out of love for this—this man, this demagogue?