rabble-rouser
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
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