demagogic

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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

Nikki Haley spoke evocatively and passionately during the campaign about the demagogic claims he was making about people, and her parents as immigrants.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2017

These, it should be recollected, were the utterances of a man who was from age too near the end of political ambition to be possibly influenced by demagogic designs of any sort.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell