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
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
It’s alert to the ways in which demagogic leaders or movements can use propaganda, an older term that can be synonymous with disinformation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
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
The military sedition was complicated by the religious fanaticism of the raskolniks and the demagogic passions of the popular army.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
