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

The story of Coughlin, the demagogic radio priest who dominated American airwaves during the Great Depression, offers an intriguing analog-age precedent to the digital-age debates over the limits of free expression.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2021

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

He was a great demagogue, and Bismarck had already learnt that a man who aimed at being not only a diplomatist, but a statesman and a ruler, must have something of the demagogic art.

From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by Headlam, James Wycliffe