demagogue

The story relates Laxman’s making as a demagogue, dwelling on the years in which he used his extended family as a kind of training ground for his megalomania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

But he also turned on his vice-president, reposting a comment on X in which she was labelled a "traitor, a demagogue and stupid in economic terms".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

Lines like that, though, do not do Miller justice, as either a villain, a demagogue, or a policymaker.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

It is a love of a de facto cult leader and demagogue for his followers who give him narcissistic fuel, their money, adoration, loyalty, time, energy, and perhaps even lives and freedom.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

And this honor she knew was being paid to money, the great demagogue.

From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill

He said the corporation was "the best defence of truth and trust against the lies of dictators and demagogues".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

Demonization and dehumanization are tried and true tactics of demagogues in every era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025

Racism has bedeviled this continent for centuries, but demagogues who seek power through raw resentment fail all the time.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024

These mutations, Proust warned, turn the blessed and the damned into caricatures easily manipulated by demagogues and the mob.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022

Atticus Finch was right when he said the only good the University did Henry was let him make friends with Alabama’s future politicians, demagogues, and statesmen.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

At the same time, only a week ago, President Obama had praised Ryan as a "pretty sincere guy" and seemed to suggest Ryan's idea shouldn't be demagogued as "trying to hurt our senior citizens."

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2010

Perhaps directness is what’s required for an issue that cries out for more listening and less demagoguing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2022