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rabble-rouser

[rab-uhl-rou-zer] / ˈræb əlˌraʊ zər /
NOUN
passionate orator
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Example Sentences

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It’s not that Fennell isn’t good at playing the rabble-rouser, as many have alleged.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

There is some scepticism that the teenage Merz was much of a rabble-rouser.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

Smalls is a decidedly charismatic rabble-rouser in the momentous year “Union” chronicles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

Ferguson has been a steady conservative, but not a right-wing rabble-rouser.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

He was new, someone they’d picked up in the Paradise Islands, and a bit of a rabble-rouser, but no one contradicted him when he said it again, louder: “It just ain’t right.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee