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demagogic

[dem-uh-goj-ik, -gog-, -goh-jik] / ˌdɛm əˈgɒdʒ ɪk, -ˈgɒg-, -ˈgoʊ dʒɪk /




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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

To suggest any connection between the war in Vietnam and the condition of Black citizens at home, according to Life, was little more than "demagogic slander."

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 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

Every movement has its demagogic strains, its exploitable aspects.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2017

I do not mean anything demagogic; I do not mean to talk as if we wanted a great mass of men to rush in and destroy something.

From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson


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